Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building, which will occupy the present site of the Dana-Palmer House on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Quincy Street, was endowed by the gift of Thomas W. Lament '92 The library will house an extensive collection of undergraduate study materials, now scattered through such locations as Widener Library and the Union and Roylsten reading rooms...
...police bobbies). Upping Turner, they insisted, was rank favoritism: each should have been given the chance to apply for the promotion. Out also went many of Billingsgate's cleaners. Conscientious Constable Turner, they angrily charged, had stooped unfairly to help the superintendent hose down a messy corner of the fish market...
...combination of Captain Jay Hurley to Dick Bezanson accounted for half of the Crimson scoring us Bezanson poured in five goals in the first half from the corner of the crease after taking Hurley passes. Hurley himself scored once in the second half with the rest of the goals coming on shots by Ned Dewey, Jeff Smith, Hans Estin, and Bob Richards...
American mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed-jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public, which has proved to the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph platitudes has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous...
...much time as he could in the Public audiences. He would wave his entourage aside, and let the people throng around him. Once he lost his ring in the crush. Another time, a woman begged him to hear her confession then & there. (The Pope did, in a secluded corner of the room.) But the strain of the war years has told on him. He finds these long public audiences tiring, especially notices the fatigue after hours of gently helping to lift visitors from their knees...