Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the net slowed the ship's way, took to dumping his catch overboard when his back was turned. As the long voyage wore on, Huxley found that such setbacks, like the difficulty of peering through his microscope in heavy weather or keeping a workable laboratory in a corner of the chartroom, were as nothing, compared to the psychological chafing brought about by close quarters...
...bars. Often the other chimpanzee would share his food, especially if the two were well acquainted. Sometimes, however, the ape with food would simply shake hands with the other, or turn his back, or become so uncomfort able that he would retreat with the food to a distant corner...
...pals goes lo a nearby field hospital with a cunningly self-inflicted wound. When Berlin pays him a visit he finds Lieutenant Kroysing a patient there too. Kroysing is furious that Niggl has given him the slip but swears he will corner him again somehow when he has recovered from his wound. Berlin's man-made misfortunes seem momentarily on the mend. The pretty head nurse knows his books and admires them. Thanks to her personal influence with the Crown Prince, he is transferred to a better job, with an army corps that is leaving for the comparative comfort...
...Those who bear the brunt of furnishing advice to investors and wholesalers have been enthusiastic" in the search. "Needless to say, they have found evidence of such a correlation. As the number of sunspots mount, prosperity turns the corner, prosperity hides itself in a depression." It is now said that prosperity is turning the corner; sunspots are improving in number as well...
Outside of the mound assignment, there will be no change in the Harvard lineup. Al Colwell, as usual, will occupy the hot corner, with Johnny Adzigian at third and Frank Owen holding down the keystone sack...