Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were also four sentimental landscapes suitable for calendars, an unbelievably bad poster pumpkin, an indigestible moon in a green sky and some portraits. Bleated New Jersey Art Critic and Columbia University Art Instructor Raymond O'Neill: "This show will make New Jersey appear to be painting in a corner away from the march of art and time. To tell the truth, it's hard to get steamed up enough to attack these pictures. They are grand examples of artistic decadence. . . . Everyone will get the wrong idea about New Jersey...
Second among the outstanding performers for the Freshmen is their captain, Al Hanlon, a crack middle distance man. Al's home stretch sprints have been one of the most beautiful pieces of track work seen in the Stadium this year. Usually off the last corner last, Hanlon has been consistent in overcoming his adversaries leads to come home a winner. He will be another factor next year when he puts on a Varsity jersey...
...from his old friends in the railways. London Society took him up to discover that Jim Thomas was one of the best bridge players in town. No after dinner speaker was more in demand because, after the formal speaking was over, Jim Thomas could generally be found in a corner, regaling his friends with a rare collection of off-color stories. Ever since the night when he dined at Buckingham Palace with the buckles of his knee breeches held together with safety pins, he was one of King George V's favorite politicians...
...main line of the Kansas City Southern cuts into Louisiana at its northwest corner, curves southward through wooded hills. Under these hills, just north of the station of Rodessa, lie mile-deep pools of oil discovered last year and now rated as among the largest in the U. S. Last week Kansas City Southern stock was given a fancy jiggle on news that the railroad had struck oil in the Rodessa field. Excitement, however, petered out quickley. It was learned that the drilling had been done not by the railroad. K. C. S. happened to own outright a quarter-mile...
...half to the northeast proved that the Rodessa field, at this depth, extended over a respectable area. Since then more than 100 new wells have shown Rodessa's extent to be at least 10,000 acres in a narrow band lying diagonally across Louisiana's northwest corner from Arkansans on the north to Texas onthe west, with a potential production of about 200,000,000 barrels of oil. Daily production, held down by proration, is now approaching 50,000 barrels...