Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lehavot HaBashan, a new collective agricultural settlement in the northeast corner of Palestine, will seen receive much needed scientific and agricultural information through the efforts of the Harvard Zionist Society...
Yuletide food conservation reaches into every corner of the University today when bread and butter are stricken from all means and the Medical School pushes forward plans for a more far-reaching calory-saving program similar to that defeated recently in the College...
...court a young woman witness told of Crowley's villa in Sicily: "About half-past five in the morning, the household had to go out and face the sun. It was called 'adoration.' The evening ceremony was the great thing. In one corner was a chair in which Mr. Crowley sat in front of a brazier in which incense was burned. There was a scarlet woman who wore a jeweled snake under her robe. There was a sort of hysterical business. [Once] a cat was sacrificed. The knife was blunt...
...rounds to go, Jersey Joe's handlers told him he had the fight (and the world's heavyweight championship) in the bag. Under orders to stay away from Louis, Jersey Joe began playing hare & hound. When the fight ended, Joe Louis, instead of staying in his corner, ducked through the ropes. (He explained later: "I fought so lousy that I was embarrassed and just wanted to get out of sight.") His handlers pulled him back to wait for the decision...
World War II was being refought in books, while in another corner writers debated the possibilities and prospects of World...