Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the storm of prohibition, Ku Klux, and Europe has been raging, a quiet corner of the Valley of Kings has suddenly risen to prominence as the burial place of Tutankhamen, the only Pharaoh whose tomb has until recently remained undiscovered. The first reports two weeks ago promised a treasure surpassing all other archaeological discoveries in Egypt; and the wonders still continue although the inner chamber is still sealed and must remain so until the financier of the expedition, Lord Carnavon, reaches the scene of explorations, probably some time in February...
...town-meeting style and heard the issues of the day discussed?" Unfortunately, there is. Faneuil Hall is not as popular a place as this writer supposes, or as the guidebook would wish to make it. Cantabrigians, who find Tremont and Boylston Streets, or Copley Square, or Coolidge Corner, conveniently near to Harvard Square, rarely penetrate a lesser distance on the other side of Park Street, to the Old South Church, or the old State House, or to the remoter regions of Copp's Hill and the Paul Revere district, the heart of Revolutionary Boston. Many hurry along Tremont a tombstone...
...Society will give "First Down Egypt" at Whitney Hall, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, tonight at 8.15. Tickets are on sale at Herrick's. There will be dancing after the performance continuing until one o'clock...
...subway entrance at the corner of Holyoke street which has been open only from 7 to 9.30 o'clock in the morning will now be open every afternoon and evening from 4 to 8 o'clock for the use of students desiring to go to Boston after classes and in the evening. This is entirely an experiment and the entrance will be closed if not enough students make use of the opportunity...
...look upon the motion picture as vastly more than a corner amusement device. It has a far greater significance than that. The following is a statement I have just dictated for the American Legion concerning Education Week...