Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage was set for a double steal with McTernen on first and Bilodeau safe at third. The speedy Crimson center fielder started for second. Bill Ryan, the Holy Cross catcher, spotted the play and in attempting to keep Bilodeau at third tossed wild to the hot-corner, allowing the Varsity captain to score. A moment later McTernen brought in the tying tally, as the left fielder's throw home went far from the plate...
There is nothing more discouraging to slaving students, especially in the larger halls, to see a little knot of proctors standing in a corner of the room after the books have been given out rehearsing together their last week-end on the North Shore or trip to Revere for the roller-coaster. This sort of proctorial whispering, even though it may be a dull job to loaf about for three hours watching others pour out their heart's blood, is clearly a breach of trust. Memorial Hall, where it is possible to congregate beside the blackboards at the entrance...
...night passed as the world waited to see what Germany might do. Monday noon the answer came, not from Berlin or Iviza, but from Almeria, a small grape and orange-shipping port of military importance on Spain's southeastern corner, now jammed with noncombatant refugees from Rightist-held Malaga. Almeria had nothing to do with the raids on Mallorca, but Almeria is on the section of Spanish coast that the German navy legally patrols. At dawn following the Deutschland bombing, five Nazi warships flying Swas tika battle flags from their main trucks drew up off the harbor entrance. Flagship...
Speaking of the "joy of winning" Bingham said he hoped he wouldn't live to see the day when it disappeared from House athletics. He prophesied that the University would have much better teams in the next two or three years and stated that "we have turned the corner in football...
...such prizes-in painting, sculpture, architecture, landscaping. Each means two years at the American Academy in Rome. Competitors must be bachelors under 30, winners must promise not to marry until their two years are up. Since 1926 Yale's School of Fine Arts has had something of a corner on the Rome prizes, especially in painting and sculpture...