Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promised Temple to Sane Eating to be erected on the former church site at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke streets has not materialized, and it appears that the "cafeteria" menace will go unchecked as ever for at least another year. Nor is this failure of the authorities to provide a new Dining Hall much their fault. Undergraduates simply do not seem to wish to return to the club table system which existed in Memorial Hall for fifty years, and to which President Lowell thinks they will return. But 180 men were willing to commit themselves to club tables...
...bureau of information for students in the University is maintained daily from 9 to 5 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House, at the northwest corner of the Yard. A committee of upperclassmen 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...
Last week he pitted some 40 years of life and 23 years of ring experience against Georgie Levine, young welterweight. Levine jabbed, ducked, danced. Britton, his legs lazy with age, dodged well, punched hard, won the decision. Levine rushed over from his corner: "Jack, you're a great...
...that water. The conferees pointed fingers at California's delegates and accused them of unfair bargaining. California protested that the 20-year clause was meant simply to protect one and all from the possibility of demands and projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses a corner of that country to reach the Gulf of California. But U. S. Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming forced California's hand by eliciting this admission from a California spokesman: "If Arizona is willing to grant California a larger allocation, California will grant her more time for development...
...dawn in Europe before the State of Massachusetts had finished with the Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti and some press representatives called at a small house in Torre Maggiore, Italy. An old man, Michele Sacco, had been sitting motionless in a corner of this house for days. A younger man, Sabino Sacco, met the early visitors at the door, scanned their faces, burst into tears, fled to his father. The old man stiffened, screamed, fell back muttering maledictions. "They have killed my innocent son," he babbled...