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Word: cornering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...third goal came when Charlie Weiss, playing right inside, booted a high kick which the Amherst left full-back deflected into the corner of the nets...

Author: By Bob Carswell, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

...piece begins with a wolf call, and ends with all the instruments thrown into a corner. It is scored for ukulele, kazoo, hogan-twanger (wooden box and hacksaw blades), cardboard box, seal barks and an Indian elephant bell. It has words like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gumbo | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...reached in his pocket and handed me a [diamond] bracelet . . . which must have cost $20,000. I snatched it from him and flung it into a corner. Flo didn't flick an eye to see where it went, but I did, and Patricia Ziegfeld still wears it on very formal occasions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

When Hawthorne went to Boston in 1839 to check cargoes for the customs, they corresponded. For several years before they were married Hawthorne wrote to her as her husband; once, at his insistence, she signed herself in a corner in a small, scared hand "Sophia Hawthorne." In his letters were passages like the sweetest speeches in Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Real Man's Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Harvard discourtesy to bounce up and go flatten the guy with the ball." By exhibiting consistently fine down field blocking, individual tackling, and ground defenses as a whole, the attack of a very strong team was rendered pointless. Art Valpey put it another way: "When they turned the corner, they could taste...

Author: By Chuck Bailey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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