Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 25 inclusive" can safely be left to his ingenuity, and he begins his interpretation by ignoring the mechanical sound of an official "spring recess" and talks yearningly of "spring vacation" for months beforehand. It means that, long since weary of sloppy pavements and chill breezes around the corner of the library, he can betake himself to the country where things are getting green as well as sloppy, and where the chilliness of the breeze can be discounted because one naturally expects to be cold in the country. Or it means that he can go to New York (which...
...would be like a game of button, button. Gossip would take on an important tone that is lacking when it is concerned only with the Watch and Ward society and the Lampoon's difficulties. And the undergraduate body would throw its academic worries into a corner, and depart to be joyous, and return undisappointed, and the bored way in which the College accepts the recess that is doled out to it would be forever replaced by an abiding sense, however, false, that they had really got something for nothing...
Zarakov turned in a pair of sparkling plays on ground balls to the hot corner and the remainder of the Crimson inner defense gave tight support in the field. The visiting garden trio shone brightly while the infielders were messing up everything they touched. Asher robbed Ellison of a triple in the fourth when he gathered in his long drive after a hard...
Related to this is the second reason for the study of history. It is a constant exercise in escape from the strait-jacked of a provincial mind. An uneducated person sees the world from the point of view of his own narrow social and economic corner of it. He lacks the knack of forgetting the prejudices of his own trade, his own class, and his own particular country; he is incapable of seeing things whole. The historian who has undertaken to project his imagination into other times, to comprehend other customs and motives, is the more likely to achieve...
...quiet and calm which is as much a part of the town as the diversity of her minor monotonies. Genuine reflection, however does continue and prompts an occasional reference to the story of the lady whose name was not Lou and the man who sold the story on Brimstone Corner...