Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserted and overgrown with poison oak and empty save for bats and snakes and a few broken tables and benches. (A considerable enterprise-over 300 men were employed there.) No one goes there now. We were startled the first time to find standing on a floor in a dim corner, the portrait of an old lady in a massive frame in an otherwise empty cabin-a sensitive old face just come from some secure New England village...
...President: Bob Post should put on a dunce cap and stand in the corner...
...split second pause, Times Square loafers thought of almost anything but what followed around the corner: ABSTRACT...
...right on the point of the champion's sagging jaw. The peculiar, wet-sounding detonation of what experts considered one of the hardest punches ever delivered in a prize ring told spectators on the rim of the park exactly what had happened. While Louis stood in a neutral corner, not bothering to look back. Referee Tommy Thomas counted ten over the unconscious ex-champion...
...also made an operating profit, 2.15% in 1935, increased it to 4.86% in 1936. Laggards were the manufacturers of "case goods," or dining room and bedroom suites. Their operating loss was 2.13% in 1935. But last year homemakers apparently got around to suites and the manufacturers turned the corner handsomely with a profit...