Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate over quadrennial versus annual interest in amateur athletics is seeping into every corner of the U.S. sports panorama. The showdown should come in July at the track Olympics in London...
...than railway fare. Somewhere in transit "The Voice of the Turtle" acquired new scenes, more people, and a coy chastity. What was once a one-set, three-character production now boasts Wayne Marris, as many extras as the next epic, and intimate glimpses of New York ranging from a corner grocery store to the Pennsylvania Hotel...
...Manufacturers of children's clothing and toys, obstetricians and hospitals are immediately affected. Actually, the effects of a population bulge . . . will spread to every corner of the economy. One important aspect is the food situation. An era of food scarcity, such as now exists, has been the exception rather than the rule in our history. The population bulge may remove the edge from the problem of farm surpluses...
...this new blood and two weeks of rest from competition might at last bring about the upset that has apparently been lurking somewhere around the corner for the Barclaymen...
Lyons branched out in 1912 with its first Corner House near Piccadilly Circus, biggest restaurant in the world, where 4,500 could eat at once on the nine floors. This mass-market feeding was immensely aided by Chairman Isidore Salmon's penchant for bad puns and good publicity. Every Briton who read a paper became familiar with Sir Isidore's brainchild George, who was always "gone to Lyonch...