Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer to Maurice L. Rothschild, directly across State St. from the new Goldblatt super-bargain palace; Henry C. Lytton's Hub, across the other boundary street, Jackson Boulevard; the old Spiegel-Cooper store (now Sears, Roebuck) down the street: the Brothers Mandel on the "world's busiest corner"; the Netcher's Boston Store; Komiss Co., ad infinitum...
...while Varsity Coach Jack Carr and Captain Jim Wood are digging in on one part of the field, Freshman Coach Jim McDonald is off in a corner beginning to worry quietly to himself...
...Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton announced that the national fever chart of Landon enthusiasm showed a slump during August, but was now displaying a hopeful rise. In that revelation he was one jump ahead of seasoned political writers, who, as the Presidential campaign rounded its Labor Day corner with only eight weeks to go, were agreed that GOProgress had definitely slacked off. Searching for reasons, they solemnly took stock of trends and events since the June night at Cleveland when John Hamilton's nominating speech sent the Landon candidacy off to a roaring start...
Around the head is no frame; no collar is visible; on the stamp appears not even the King's name but simply the word POSTAGE, the denomination and a very small crown off in a corner. When Post Office wickets opened to sell this issue last week, critical officials spoke of "testing the new stamps" and of substituting something more usual if they proved unpopular. In rushed hordes of the King's subjects and bought hand-over-fist some 30,000,000 Edwards. After this not even the crustiest oldster could well call the new King...
...weeks each September, one small corner of Long Island becomes, with less ballyhoo than that occasioned by a college football game, the sporting capital of the entire world. This unique occurrence, moreover, happens so regularly that Long Islanders scarcely bothered to raise their eyebrows at all last week at the prospect of a program which in many ways makes the Olympic Games at Berlin look like a sideshow...