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Word: cornering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...starched blue collar on shirt to match. Tie of sombre hue, is neatly in place with an exceedingly small knot over the pin. Vest is in prominent display, and thin gold chain stretches from upper pocket to upper pocket with a slight dip. Breast pocket display cousists of corner of handkerchief with tiny monogram. Perfect crease leads the eye down to slightly wide cuffs breaking on over polished shoes. If it were but slightly colder, an immaculate Chesterfield would add the final touch...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: What The Freshman is Wearing The Smooth Lad. | 9/22/1928 | See Source »

...bureau of information for students in the University is maintained daily from 9 until 5 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House at the northwest corner of the yard. A committee of upper classmen will be present to talk with new men, to take charge of mail and parcels left in its care, and generally to render any assistance possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. BUREAU DISPENSES INFORMATION TO STUDENTS | 9/21/1928 | See Source »

Then he struck the corner stone three times with a hammer, and that ended the ceremonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Coopers & Brewers | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...medieval Germany. Instead it was the ceremonies attending the laying of a corner stone of the new Germanic Museum at Munich. The gold ring in the President's hand was the honor ring of the Museum with which Herr Goldenberger, the Bavarian Minister of Education, presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Coopers & Brewers | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...little legacy to each he leaves in this last volume. Destiny Bay is the bonniest corner of Ireland, where the purplest heather grows, the gamest trout swim, the swiftest horses race, the most picturesque of gypsies roam, and the finest gentlefolk rule. Head of the ruling family is Sir Valentine, red-bearded from eye to waist, soft of heart, sharp of eye, with a ready curse for any emergency. For the sake of a dying gypsy-queen he defied a time-honored rule of the Derby. He also bullied a Catholic priest into burying a Chinese-his brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Irishry | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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