Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love Princeton. No graduate is ever too old to thrill to the singing of "Old Nassau" with his napkin waving on high. Annual atendance at a Triangle Club show assumes the aspect of a religious devotion. Heaven itself must seem to him incomplete if there is no little corner where Princeton men may congregate. --Baltimore Evening...
...tradition-surrounded home of John Hicks, one of the Minute Men of Revolutionary days, is to be moved from its present site on 64 Dunster Street this summer to make room for the projected University gymnasium. The small Colonial house has occupied its corner location for 166 years and the Harvard building authorities, who own the structure, plan to move it intact to adjacent property, if place can be made...
...Eyre reached for his map, missed it; it slipped into a corner of his cockpit. Two thousand feet over Essex, England, he undid his safety straps and reached again. Unintentionally he pressed the control stick forward. The plane stalled with a start and an astonished flier found himself catapulted into midair. With presence of mind he pulled his parachute cord, landed unhurt, lighted a cigaret, and addressed a gaping rustic: "I wonder where my kite's gone...
...that broad table of his, in the corner of a vast room in the historic Palazzo Chigi, which with its lofty painted roof and row of fixed seats like choir stalls has something of an air of sacristy, are brought for Mussolini's approval reports and projects from almost every branch of public life in the country...
...these flippancies. He said: "My opponent knows he has a weak case so he jokes with the jury. . . . Let us have done with lies and hypocrisy. Ninety per cent of married people practice birth control. Let us legalize it and get away from the bootlegged devices of the corner drug store. ... I am not for free love. . . . The companionate marriage is real marriage. It will put an end to the immorality of the present day and correct the divorce evil. Young people with the fear of children removed can marry earlier. They can have children when they want them...