Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McNamara, the iron man, whose muscles are stronger than bicycle chains and whose will is a spinning-wheel that never stops, would have shown once more that nobody can beat him. For five days, 23¾ hours, he had almost continuously led the field-then a crash at the corner, a spill over the handlebars, and he lay beside his partner, Linari. The Italian, his shoulder heavily bandaged, was barely able to remount his vehicle, but McNamara shook himself, got up, pedaled the last mile and won the race, 2,286 miles, 146 pedaling hours...
...first showed a lively interest in the problem. It is stated that he has secured the cooperation of the Corporation in planning a dining hall to be strictly operated under the club table plan and to be located on the site of the old Catholic Church on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets. He and Dr. Worcester will discuss that plan today. The success of this suggestion is necessarily conditioned by the amount of interest shown in the project among the undergraduates. It is of course purposeless to artificially stimulate such interest for that would mean simply...
...graduate secretaries of the Union stated that it is understood that President Lowell had secured the cooperation of the Corporation in planning a dining hall which will be located on the site of the old Catholic church on the northwest corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets...
From every corner of the land they came, Harvard men, from the banks, from corporation rooms, from industrial enterprises, from the building of bridges, from pulpits, from newspaper desks, from official seats in Washington, from laboratories and universities, from law offices, to give tribute to the man who had guided them by example or by advice during their formative years, who, more than any other, had prepared them for life. So they came in his death, silent witnesses that he still lived...
...stated that the University authorities had given them to understand that President Lowell had secured the cooperation of the corporation in planning a dining hall to be strictly operated upon the club table plan and to be located on the site of the old Catholic church on the northwest corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets. The President is not interested in competing with Square restaurants, but in supplying what no private eating establishment can,--namely, club tables, where groups of men can eat together, being assured of the same table and their particular friends at every meal...