Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Techmen held the Crimson scoreless until late in the third quarter, when Captain Phil Potter crossed a long kick into the corner of the MIT goal. From then on, it was no contest. But before Potter's goal, the Crimson was frequently in trouble and it was only several spectacular saves by goalie Loring Batchelder that prevented Tech scores...
Ration. In Wild Cat Corner, N.C., Mrs. Robert Ivey, charged with buying and reselling one gallon of whiskey every day, protested: "I drink every bit of that gallon myself...
Maldarelli's star ex-pupil is 30-year-old Mitzi Solomon, but strangely enough, none of the nudes in Maldarelli's show (see above) was named Mitzi. She staged an exhibition of her own last week, just around the corner from the master's, and Maldarelli did not bother to see it. Her work had grown a world apart from...
...chaos and Communism. They minimize his authoritarian tendencies. The socialist center groups have failed, the argument goes, and it is high time the General came to power. He will straighten out the economy, make the most efficient use of Marshall Plan aid, and run the Reds into a back corner...
...conclusion is that world starvation is not around the corner. Man can make a mess of his food supply, as he can of anything else. He does not have to, however. The land is there, the hands to work it are there, the brains are there. If he uses his head he can eat hearty-indefinitely. He might even produce enough to help out Dr. Vogt's friends, the woodland caribou, the Florida manatee, the wolverine and the bighorn sheep. Unfortunately nothing can be done for the extinct Eskimo curlew...