Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gallery of M. Jacques Seligmann. Women of fashion, men of affairs, all strangely stayed when they should have gone home to dress for dinner. They did not go because they had lent their faces to the Loan Exhibition of the Society of the Art Patrons of America. In one corner stood Otto H. Kahn, international banker-a suave, stocky, domineering head by Sculptor Jo Davidson ; near him, in the twilight, H. P. Davison, a banker no less famed, gazed with measured glance out of the paint of Sir William Orpen. For its economy of drawing, its matchlessly skilful blend...
...last period, with only Newell at goal and Pratt at defense, Hodder skated from behind his own goal through the three Boston University players still on the ice, and cared a hard shot at the corner...
Austin made the first three scores of the game, two of them on hard shots at the corner of the net which just missed the iron bar. Coach Bigelow made numerous substitutions last night, and if nothing else, the game revealed that he has a wealth of reserve material for the 1925 team. The passing was ragged on both sextets, and a tendency frequently to shoot from near mid ice probably lost several goals for Harvard. A much improved Crimson team will be the inevitable result of several weeks more of practice. HARVARD M. I. T. Austin, Burgess. Scott...
...iron, is cheerful over the iron and steel outlook. Increased steel buying and increased prices are reported; the industry is now operating on a 70% basis. Wheat futures continue to rise under shortage, while staple agricultural prices are high and firm. Many industries are patently turning the corner. Imports and exports of gold are both increasing, but despite large recent foreign loans floated here, domestic money remains abundant and cheap...
...Paul's Catholic Church on the corner of Holyoke Street and Mt. Auburn Street is being razed to make way for an apartment house. The work will take about six weeks...