Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...initial corner Lord, who started the season as regular is leading the first sackers with a .882 fielding average. Until his recent injury, the former Freshman star had slipped only twice in 17 attempts. Tobin who is occupying the first base berth at present has compiled an .800 average. The latter has turned in ten assists, however, whereas his predecessor's chances were entirely limited to put outs...
...over with the first marker, and himself took third when Ellison's hit, aided by the wind, dropped safely for a single. Todd smacked the ball to the third baseman, and Zarakov was trapped between home and third. Ellison, in the meanwhile, decided that he would occupy the far corner, and so when Zarakov decided the same thing, the Bowdoin third sacker found himself in the unusual position of trying to tag two men at once, invading his domain from two sides. The Crimson runners took advantage of his momentary perplexity by sliding safely into the bag. Third-baseman McLaughlin...
...sixth century. Although many of the carvings were wrecked, there remained enough to show that they belonged to the same period as the great caves at Lung Men and Tatung Fu. The cave was important for two reasons; first, because of the great carven elephants that stood at each corner of the central core pillar, and the Jataka tales sculptured on the walls, features unique, it is believed, in the sculpture of the period; and secondly, because of its situation on the trade route from India and the West...
...Merry Merry" is, in fact, preeminently a dancing show. It is for her dancing that Miss Marle Saxon has, temporarily at least, usurped that corner of this Senior's mind ostensibly reserved for the Scotch imitators of Chaucer. When she sang, in a pleasingly pretty fashion, we found our inner brain pondering, despite ourselves, on the virtues of Dryden's prose style. When she spoke, in a delightfully mellifluous drawl, we could not entirely forget the family life of Milton, but when she danced--divisionals, oh yes, when does that examination come, and if so, what...
...corner of 14th and F Streets, Washington, there stood, early in the week, a low wall of bricks somewhat jagged at one end President Coolidge approached, took a trowel and spread some additional plaster with difficulty. "It won't spread well", he remarked with a trace of annoyance. Then he stood back to survey the cornerstone he had laid, put aside the silver trowel...