Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called grande presse d'information, the big newsorgans controlled by substantial interests, undertook to slay him with ridicule and such "information" as that last year on Bastille Day he posted stickers in Paris lavatories inviting all Frenchmen of courage to meet him on a designated street corner the following day for the purpose of attacking the Bank of France...
...Corporation voted "that a New Pump be procured for Use in the Kitchin & that a New Well be dug and a pump be put in it at the South East Corner of the Yard to accomodate the Students in Massachusetts College." The pump at the east end of Harvard Hall was done away with in 1885 as a test revealed the water was contaminated. The fate of the southernmost pump is unknown...
Meantime the price of newsprint tobogganed from a 1920 high of more than $100 per ton to about $55 per ton in 1929, then on down to a Depression low of $40. Even on its great modern paper machines at Gatineau and Three Rivers, Que.; Dalhousie, New Brunswick; and Corner Brook on the west coast of Newfoundland, International could not make enough money. But President Graustein discovered other profit sources. One was kraft paper, the common coarse bag and wrapping paper manufactured in the South. In the process of acquiring kraft companies, Mr. Graustein picked up a crack operating...
...will long ago have discovered that the photograph (credited to Keystone) you printed on p. 21, TIME, Dec. 9, was not that of General Sung Cheh-yuan, as labeled. Difficult to corner with a camera, General Sung is much younger, larger, bigger-boned. Current dealings with Major General Kenji Doihara leave him no time for such books as that carried by the real man in the picture. The book happens to be a Bible, and the man himself deserves a greater place in U. S. hearts than Warlord Sung. He is Yao Chen-yuan, 80-year-old Chinese Christian, sole...
...mixed the dust of Tennyson, Dickens and Samuel Johnson. At the end of the quiet service the Abbey choir soared into Kipling's stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets' Corner of the Abbey,* the pallbearers included Kipling's cousin. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Major General Sir Fabian Ware. the Morning Post's Editor H. A. Gwynne. Then to the Abbey floor was added a plain stone inscribed, "RUDYARD KIPLING...