Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four-poster mahogany bed, his eyes may travel out over the verdure of the White House park to the massy shaft of the Washington monument, which gleams pink at sunrise. If he goes to his south window and peers to the right, he may also see a corner of the State, War & Navy Building. In his room is the bed that was built for Abraham Lincoln, so huge (6½ ft. by 9 ft.) that four Roosevelt children could be comfortably tucked away in it crosswise...
Every night last week groups of workingmen, mostly Italians, stood at the corner of 109th street and Second avenue, Manhattan, gazing across the street at the windows of the City Trust Co. They wondered what, if anything, their bankbooks might be worth. On the windows were posted notices that the state banking department had taken possession of the bank. Back of the closed doors bank examiners checked books and investments and balances. Perhaps the bank was "broke...
...Saunders hastened from his native Memphis to Manhattan. They would sell Piggly short, would they? Well, he'd show them, and he did. He ran Piggly Wiggly stock up from 40 past 120, realized some millions of paper profits. Then, unfortunately, the Stock Exchange Governors decided that a corner had been established in Piggly Wiggly and took the stock off the board. With trading suspended, there was no market, no quotation on Mr. Saunders' stock. Mr. Saunders discovered that Wall Street has a cemetery at one end and a river at the other. After an unsuccessful attempt...
...After John Harvard has had 293 years of varying success, six weeks of apple sauce bid fair to leave him with nothing but a pair of pants and a coat of copper nitrate. And now that tradition has been blackjacked and thrown into a corner, these innovators are licensed to peddle their synthetic culture to the universities, colleges and preparatory schools...
...score of the match was 15-10, 15-12, 15-9, and in the second game Jansen had a ten point advantage before Iselin managed to score. Jansen's corner shots mingled with hard drives kept Iselin on the defensive most of the time...