Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further developed that White, who was only going to be gone for a short time, had not bothered to put on any clothes. Although stories varied, Jack Bovis '42 was credited with calling the Cambridge Fire Department, conveniently located around the corner. The local smoke-caters were said to have entered the third story window by means of an extension ladder...
...Henry Adams, the Porcellian Club, or Samuel Eliot Morison's history. It is applied to the student so absorbed in his bio-chemistry that he cannot look at anyone and to the Freshmen too frightened for words, as well as to the Andover man who finds himself a cozy corner in Mt. Auburn Street and sleeps four years...
...they wandered over the face of the earth they took up the dances of other nations, forgot their own. But one small group of about 3,000 Jews did not forget: the Yemenite Jews* who, driven from Jerusalem by the Roman conquerors in 132 A. D., settled in a corner of southwestern Arabia, where they have carried the traditions of Old Testament life down to the present...
...York school children will know that acceleration, not braking, is the way to control skidding; that the best way to start on an icy surface is in high, not low gear. They will know the dangerous effect of automobile radios, "tunnel vision" (inability to see out of the corner of the eye), and thinking about quarrels with one's wife (perseveration). As pedestrians they will be taught to cross at crossings, hold umbrellas high, walk to the left on rural highways and at night to carry a light or something white; as essential adjustments to environment "if the pedestrian...
Meantime, the Czech crisis and the ominous maneuvers of 1,300,000 German soldiers beyond the French frontier, placed French Communists and Socialists in a corner. Premier Daladier's proposal to emasculate the 40-hour law was a slap in their face but they dared not set out to wreck his Cabinet...