Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long will this continue? I have something else to do.' Then my wife told the painter: 'Pay no attention to him. Go right ahead and take as long as you like. If he were not here with you he would be over there in the corner reading naughty French novels...
Both of the Coxswains were coming downstream, and cutting the corner too closely. In the gathering darkness it was impossible for them to judge distances accurately; otherwise the accident might have been avoided...
...West India Goods store near the corner specialized in salt fish, rum, molasses, vinegar, farm produce, grain, tea and coffee, hardware, paint, lard oils and a hundred other general commodities. The local jail occupied the property now the site of the Pi Eta clubhouse near the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets. The community was small and everybody knew everybody else and all about them...
...Among the stores near the Square at that time, was the firm of George Nichols, 'Bookseller to the University', who offered a hint to the stores of today by advertising his literary ware as 'for sale at the lowest Boston prices.' Nichols was located at the corner of Holyoke Street, and was later succeeded by John Bartlett, of the firm of Little and Brown, Boston publishers. The business has been transferred from place to place since then, but is still being run today by G. H. Kent on Massachusetts Avenue...
Ticket holders only may enter through Gate 19 opposite the Newell Boat House on the northeast side of the field or through Gate 9, leading out of Stadium Street at the southern corner of the field...