Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn streets has been purchased by the Manter Hall Tutoring School, and will be the site of a large new building to be erected and occupied by that institution, it was announced last night. The Dunster House Bookshop and the Advocate Building, which now stand on the newly-acquired property of Manter Hall, will be torn down this fall. The land was sold by the Dunster House Bookshop, previous owners of the property...
...tunnels contain enormous pipes, which come from the power plant at the corner of Boylston Street and the Parkway, and carry the steam that heats practically all of the College buildings. These pipes enter through Smith Halls and there the tunnel system begins. All the Freshman dormitories are connected by two underground passages, one that carries steam pipes, and one used for transporting food from the kitchens in smith where the seeking for all four Freshman dining halls is done...
Outside of Bloomfield, N. J., last week one Walter S. Johnson drove along in his automobile beside one Sidney G. Smith on his motorcycle. Both were strangers. When they turned a corner, the automobile "cut in" on the motorcycle, forced it off the road...
...first. Dempsey was coming. You could see a swirl far back in the crowd that drew nearer and nearer as Dempsey moved down the aisle with his handlers and a corps of policemen. He climbed through the ropes-unshaven, hard-muscled, surprisingly thin-and crossed to Tunney's corner. "How are you, boy?" he said. The iron voice announced the weights: "Jack Dempsey, who has defended his title for the last six years. . . ." Loud booing. You bent over to light a cigaret and when you looked up they were fighting...
...Thirty seconds later, as the new heavyweight champion of the world, he was making a brief martial* address into the microphone, while cameras snapped. It was several minutes before the photographers remembered that there had been another man in the ring. They looked over their shoulders at a wet corner, but Dempsey had gone...