Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sometimes these mistakes ate damaging to a person mentioned. Yet for the injured person to go to law would be costly and uncertain. He writes a letter to the paper. If the paper does not publish it or publishes it in an obscure corner, it is often cheapest for him to accept the injury and let the matter drop...
...system they have established. They have given India a system based on force, by which they can feel secure only in the shadow of their forts and guns. We Indians, in turn, hope by our conduct to demonstrate to every Englishman that he is as safe in the remotest corner of India as he professes to feel behind the machine...
...further complicated by the presence of a wife in an insane asylum. Though he will not divorce the companion of his early struggles, nevertheless he loves Rita and has hit upon a novel way of bringing her to her knees. It turns out to be Haggerty who engineered the corner in the stock market which is threatening to ruin her father. Since Haggerty is the only one who can save the old man, Rita sends for him and informs him defiantly that though she does not love him, still he holds the winning cards, and if he will save...
...gift of 70,000 square feet of land to the University was announced last night. Situated at the corner of Avenue Louis Pasteur and Longwood Avenue, the land is just opposite the Medical School and is intended to be the site of the new medical dormitory...
...windows on, the second floor of the Signet Club brought the fire department to the seene about 11 o'clock last night. Closer investigation disclosed the fact that a defective furnace was causing the trouble, thus disappointing a crowd of about 100 students which had quickly congregated around the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets...