Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Just then I saw an old man showing some invention of his in a corner of the room. "That is Fourth Dimension, our greatest philosopher. He is the inventor of the process by which a wooden box may be turned inside out. He is showing his latest discovery." I approached him to see the novelty, when behold! it was my mathematical motor! "Thief," I cried, "that invention is mine! "Snatching it from his hand, I was about to hide it from the spectators, when it started off, and, taking me with it, suddenly landed me unhurt at home...
...without a small boy or two to chase balls than - well - than the Football Team can play a game without posing, every five minutes, with hands on knees, for their photograph. Now, the man of business capacity and of a speculative turn of mind, who will get up a corner in small boys, will make a sufficient fortune to enable him to go to the first night of the Greek play at present prices. The corner could be very easily arranged. Get all the tennis nets in the Society building, and make a long seine of them by tying...
...glad to learn that the Athletic Association has decided to have the finish line, in our Spring Sports on May 19, at diagonally the opposite corner of the track from the present finish line. By this means, although it will not be as convenient for the spectators, the validity of the records made will be unquestioned; and we shall hope to see more than one of the best-on-record medals (which have been offered for any Harvard athlete who breaks a best American college record) claimed on that day. In connection with the sports, we cannot refrain from expressing...
...helpless as a dead man. I seemed to be in another world; that familiar college room was strange and unreal. A wonderful enchantment possessed me. I looked at the clock: the hands were moving irregularly backward and forward, though it had stopped ticking. There was an escritoire in one corner of the room, and the cover of this fell down with a loud bang. Inside was a man's skull. The pictures seemed to move in their frames. I could see the figure of a dog run madly back and forth; the horses in "Aurora" were galloping furiously. With fearful...
...imagined actions or feelings, - what more does the true poet? In short, in criticising poetry it is hard to say just where sentiment leaves off, and sentimentalism begins. Many pieces that, appearing under famous names, are extravagantly praised, would be characterized as trash if they appeared anonymously in the corner of a country newspaper...