Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the class of 1925 barely escaped death yesterday afternoon when a large piece of the capital of the pillar on the southwest corner of the Widener Library fell with a crash on the board walk below. The falling piece was approximately a foot and a half square at the start, but was broken by a projecting ledge on its descent and turned outward from its course...
Prohibition. Given the American problem and the American climate, Sir Auckland thought he would become a prohibitionist. A cheer came from a corner of the hall; the speaker added that, fortunately, he was not "given the American climate." (Laughter...
...home of the well-known School will be abandoned in a few days, when the "Office of William W. Nolen" will be moved to 2 Holyoke street. The Harvard Economic Research Bureau has just evacuated those premises, and takes up its abode on the upper floor of College House, corner Massachusetts Avenue and Church Street. The building has been completely renovated for the purpose...
Obliged to earn her living, Selina goes out to teach school at an "incredibly Dutch settlement" in the suburbs of Chicago. It is called High Prairie; its inhabitants are truck farmers; it is dreary enough to make Gopher Prairie look like a corner at Oxford Circus. While there she marries Pervus Dejong, impecunious farmer. Immediately she finds herself being dragged down to the level of High Prairie life...
According to announcements made yesterday by Mr. F. W. Moore '93, Graduate Secretary and Treasurer of the H. A. A., the new tennis courts inside the Freshman track on the northwest corner, of Soldiers Field will-be 15 in number instead of 16, as was announced last September...