Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to have a garden when you live on the tenth floor* of a hotel. Leaning out of the window of her apartment in the Hotel Charlotte (Charlotte, N. C.) a certain Mrs. A. A. Barren propped a heavy green box, filled with earth and flower seeds, on a corner of the ledge before lowering it to a little stone shelf that ran around the building a foot lower down. She reflected on the long way her garden would fall...
...everyone knows, displaced by the Republican flag (black, red and gold) through the action of the National Assembly at Weimar in 1919. Recently the Luther Cabinet ordered that the merchant marine flag (black, white and red with a tiny black, red and gold field in the staff corner) should also be flown by German diplomatic and consular offices. This flag was denounced as "nine-tenths Imperial and only one-tenth Republican" by the Left parties; and last week Chancellor Luther was savagely interpellated about it in the Reichstag...
...what was this? Another colt, far back in the ruck, had begun to gain with an effortless, terrific stride, two jumps to one. Nobody could see the jockey's colors. Was this one of the unknowns - Light Carbine, Roy crofter? They came around the last corner into the homestretch; the strange horse wore E. R. Bradley's silks - he was Bagen-baggage, running-mate of Bubbling Over. Mr. W. R. Coe looked out, ashen-faced, from his box; Pompey had failed, there was no doubt of it; he had broken at the mile-turn. Bubbling Over...
...clock the Boylston Street gate will be opened. The space in front of Standish Hall will be enclosed by a canvas from the far corner of Standish to the Freshman Gym and from the Freshman Gym to Smith Hall...
...former location of St. Paul's Catholic Church, at the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, and of the St. Paul's Rectory, bordering on Holyoke Street and Holyoke Place, are the two sites included in the gift. These pieces of property were purchased last spring by a group of Cambridge realtors by Moodna Farms. Incorporated of which Mr. Stillman is president...