Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pair of high sneakers were missing from Clapp's room. Investigation disclosed the fact that Officer Breene a motorcycle patrolman of the Metropolitan Police Force, had seen a person answering the missing man's description and dressed in khaki shirt, blue trousers, and tennis shoes, on the corner of Western Avenue and Flag Street at 1.45 o'clock yesterday morning. Apparently he was returning from a fire on the Magazine Beach across the river...
...advertising employs, artists of pen and brush alike. Its appeal is to the taste of the artistic which everyone has in some remote corner of his nature, and which the old methods did not reach. Instead of flaunting, barbarisms, the new art embodies "the fables of the people", and it displays "some of the most ingenuous literature...
...opponents to a single hit in five innings; Spalding, on the mound for the regulars in a game with the Freshmen last Tuesday, pitched equally well, allowing no hits in four innings. The only other position on the team that has been at all doubtful, that of the hot corner, will again be covered by Buell, who played an excellent game against the Purple, making two assists...
...Cornell in the fits match for the R. O. T. C. intercollegiate polo Championship of the East at Fort Hamilton Governor's islands N. Y., this afternoon. The winner this match will meet on next Thursday the victor of the Harvard Norwich match on Tuesday. Although both Yale and Corner will enter the contest today with no handicap, Yale is favored to win as it has had slightly more experience and at the same time, has beaten the Pennsylvania Military College 6 to 4, white Cornell lost to the same team by the score...
What a contrast to step into her study! Piles of mail; manuscripts; a sheaf of speeches for a play here; the beginning of an article there; a pile of invitations on the corner of the desk. Never satisfied, never stopping, Mrs. Rinehart is the indefatigable woman of action...