Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cultural map of Harvard Square has undergone radical changes during the past few months. Greatest of these changes has been the concentration of the intellectual centre of gravity of the University at the corner of Mount Auburn and Dunster streets...
...Rabbit, of whom the brown cotton bunny is a representation, was suggested years ago by Mr. Gompers' secretary, who detected a decided likeness between Uncle Remus' Br'er Rabbit and her chief. It was the play of wits between Br'er Rabbit and the enemies that sought to corner him that made the secretary think of the mental adroitness of Samuel Gompers in a similar situation. She found the rabbit "human looking, with a glint of knowingness in his eye, an all-pervading air of goodwill, an absence of bitterness in his make-up." So she purchased the cotton rabbit...
Work is progressing rapidly on the 16 new tennis courts which are being built inside the new Freshman track in the northwest corner of Soldiers Field...
...southeast corner of Wall and Broad streets, however, there is a low, massive building with no label at all. Over its door one sees " 23 Wall Street"?that is all. Not to know it, however, argues yourself unknown, for this is the office of J.P. Morgan...
This last Monet gives a corner of a flower garden with the sunset showing through the Summer leaves. Its breathless passion of color draws all eyes to it. Monet is master without contemporary peer. Can he be blind...