Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest 'bogey man' is that around every corner is stationed a 'Red' or a 'Bolshevik' with a bomb in his hand to blow up the Constitution of the United States unless General Dawes and his associates are called forth to defend...
...pointed a gun at the Law Student, and asked for all that he had. At first Selden thought the matter a joke but when he saw the gun he decided otherwise. The robber then grabbed Selden's gold watch and chain, fired at him, and disappeared around the corner of the building...
...Judgment has arrived. The bean lies cold and stiff in the ice-box, the cake is smoking on the board. And the ghosts of Miles Standish, John Alden, and Governor Winthrop collect in the corner and tell each other that it never could have happened...
...mystery of two champagne bottles recently unearthed by the workmen engaged in remodelling the interior of Massachusetts Hall. The two sinful bottles were discovered reposing side by side in a rusted tin tub at the bottom of an unused and forgotten well under the southeast corner of the old building. They were handed over to Mr. C. R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers...
...transformation of Little Hall from a tutoring school to a Freshman dormitory has taken place during the summer months. In the old days, the second floor of the four story building at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Dunster Street was occupied by the administrative offices of the tutoring school. The third floor was taken up by the class rooms in which the Widow and his teaching force held their classes and seminars. And on the top story were the Widow Nolen's living quarters, where he and the three little French bulldogs which were his only companions led their...