Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same spot ever since, and though the building has changed the atmosphere has not. ASCO's general offices are as cluttered as a warehouse. President Park works in shirt sleeves behind a partition, washes his hands like the rest of the staff at an open sink in the corner. Pay telephones are provided for visitors. Placards warn salesmen against smoking or parking their cars on the left side of the street outside. Mottoes proclaim, the thoughts of pious Mr. Robinson in words like these: "Honesty and Truthfulness combined with Speed and Correctness are necessary to make good Business...
With the lineup riddled badly by exams and illness, victory for the Crimson seemed very distant. With catcher Al Colwell under the weather, Frank Owens, in a surprise move, was moved to behind the plate, Dave Shean filling in at third, and Bob Gannett in right field. Regular lfot corner guardian, Dick Grondahl arrived in time for the second game after an afternoon exam...
Saturday against Holy Cross, Grondahl played brilliantly in his first appearance this year in the hot corner, while Owen made two circus catches in the outfield. The change tomorrow will be a decided handicap to the Mitchellmen...
...breakfast, alone, in a far corner of the dining-room, hidden by the eager, gossipping headlines of my newspaper from the stricken faces of my fellows bowed down by the dread anticipation of today's examinations. The war half over for me, with two examinations passed and almost forgotten and two waiting several days hence. Across my mind a quick flash of business cycles, wage differentials, currency restrictions, and then the determinations to forget these dolorous tasks for yet another day until Cambridge may become less like the Belgian Congo and more like Cambridge...
...years ago, an American Legionary calling socially on a friend in a Louisville bank, saw on his desk a canceled check from the State Bank of the U.S.S.R. payable to Dr. Ellis Freeman, professor of psychology at the University of Louisville. The Legionary sidled off to a corner in the bank, scribbled down what he had observed, showed it to Legion superiors who quickly published the charge that Professor Freeman "has received and cashed a check for $172.41, the equivalent of 199.5 rubles, from the State Bank of the U.S.S.R. at Moscow; that Professor Freeman has been soliciting subscriptions...