Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prudential Insurance Co., whose advertisements boast that it "has the strength of Gibraltar," received a 1½-ton chunk of The Rock itself, to be set in the corner stone of its new West Coast offices...
Entrance to the whole set-up is around the corner to the left of the main Mem Hall doors...
...ladies were pretty well satisfied. Gloated Vassar's Dean Mildred Thompson: "Men used to have a safe refuge ... in the corner saloon. . . . But now, when he seeks comfort at his favorite saloon, whom does he find with feet on the brass rail beside him? Woman...
...Communist propaganda "by any means whatsoever." In the 32 months before he went out of office in November 1939, Duplessis used the law eleven times. Until last week, he had not used it once since his return to power in August 1944. Now, with provincial elections just around the corner, the law seemed just the ticket for the anti-Red campaign which is supposed to bring in many Duplessis votes...
Died. Robert Patterson Lament,* 80, Secretary of Commerce under Hoover (1929-32); after long illness; in Manhattan. Lamont (he resigned over 20 major directorships when he went to Washington) always insisted that prosperity was "just around the corner"; as president of the American Iron & Steel Institute for 13 months (August 1932-September 1933), he bucked the New Deal tide, finally quit, inveighing against the idea of government in industry: "No one knows...