Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock noon, Harvard Square from Quincy to Brattle Streets, Boylston Street, Cambridge, the Anderson Bridge and North Harvard Street, Brighton, will be closed to automobile traffic as far as Western Avenue, Brighton. The only automobile gates admitting to Soldiers Field will be on the Metropolitan Parkway at the southwest corner of the field. These may be reached from Boston by Commonwealth Avenue to Brighton Avenue to Union Square, Allston, to North Beacon Street to Everett Street to Soldiers Fields Cars coming from Watertown and Waltham should come via North Beacon Street to Everett Street to Soldiers Field. The whole...
Taxis and other automobiles which do not park, if coming through Brighton may unload their passengers at the corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue about 200, yards from Gate No. 5. If coming via Cambridge by the Parkway from Boston they will be required to unload and turn at DeWelfe Square on the Parkway, about 300 yards below the Anderson Bridge on the Cambridge side...
...misfortune, had attracted the attention of mankind. Foreign relief societies and foreign bankers had combined to assimilate the rehabilitation of Austria. The Austrians were working for their eventual prosperity, and working hard, because they felt that they were getting somewhere. It seemed to them that they had rounded the corner and that conditions from then on would become slowly better, until, in their children's time, the country would have returned to peace and prosperity...
...With the Germans it is different. They also feel that they have turned the corner, --but in the opposite direction. In their present impossible attention with the French dominating them at every turn...
...genius what qualities may be lacking in his subject. His loud garrulity makes one realize why Coolidge prefers to keep silent; he supplements for dramatic interest an abundance of cheap farce; he writes of the President of the United States as if he were a hole-and-corner politician. The book drips with New England but from beginning to end there is hardly mention of any other states in the Union. Frankly booming the President, he overstates his case. Coolidge was a great governor, he has so far acted as a dignified chief executive. But not on these counts...