Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last fortnight deplored the presence of 17,000 cabs, most of them plying night and day in the congested runways of an island only 12½by12½ miles. Competition between the 17,000 is so great that, in Mr. McAdoo's words, "You can stand on any corner and count the number of taxicabs in proportion to other vehicles and two-thirds of them are taxicabs, cruising, cruising, empty, empty, everywhere...
...Arts in the University, under whose guidance the old Fogg Art Museum Building, the gift of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg of New York as a memorial to her husband, was erected, an era of rapid advancement has culminated in the construction of the new Fogg Museum on the southwest corner of Quincy Street. Directly the new Fogg Museum is a result of the $2,000,000 raised in 1924 to build a new Museum and to provide for it an endowment...
...snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces--but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum, for how can one little, Tiger, however fierce he may be, make a menngerie all by himself? Can a feather go off in a corner and flock alone by itself? But he is a very strong Tiger and very, very fierce, and his claws are sharp, and they make very astonishing cuts in the wood. But perhaps the Tiger is only sharpening his claws. Who will cage this Tiger...
Work is progressing rapidly on the foundation of the new building of the Manter Hall School at the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets. The stores on the lower floor will be ready on September 15, while the rest of the building will be ready for the occupancy of the school on October...
Therefore if our young man wants to go into politics and, as President Coolidge once said, has office holding for his hobby, he had better go to the nearest street corner in the week before election day and make the acquaintance of his ward boss and take his orders from him. He will then be a small cog in the machine of his district and state and depending on his ability to deliver the votes and his knowledge of his bailiwick will be promoted...