Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bigelow opened the scoring less than a minute after the start of the game on a neat angle shot to the far corner of the net. This tally was quickly followed by two more made from directly in front of the net by F. McN. Bacon '21 and C. W. Baker '21, who swung in from their wings...
...Cornell raced into third place in the sixth lap, and the trio gradually drew off from the rest of the field. Brown then started away to win, with O'Connell close behind him. The two runners fought hard for a lap, but O'Connell passed Brown on the last corner...
...world was horrified by the Bulgarian, Atrocities, and Gladstone aroused Europe with his stirring denouncement of "the unspeakable Turk." For a time it seemed that humanity would come into its own and that civilization would clean up this dark corner of Europe. But the selfish interests that prevailed in the Congress of Berlin, left the Turk unrestrained in his bloody work. Now, more than forty years later, the phrase "Armenian massacre" has become so trite that we hardly give it a passing thought...
...Louvain at least, for all the copper, including Professor De Wulf's six elaborate chandeliers, was collected in one of the college buildings. When the German officer demanded it, the president of the university replied: "We have no copper; all is gone." A party of Germans then searched every corner in every room of the building, and as this group proceeded through the various halls, there walked behind them, always just out of sight, a group of Belgians carrying the copper...
...Corner Kirkland and Quincy Street...