Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phil Murray?" The course of his life was turned by a street-corner meeting. One evening in September 1923, when he was lounging outside a drugstore, a friend, Mark Stanton, sauntered up. Stanton remarked he had just turned down a promising job as secretary to a young labor leader named Phil Murray. Asked McDonald: "Who is Phil Murray?" Even when he found out, he was more taken by the salary−$225 a month, three times his current earnings. Through a friend who knew Murray, David set up a job interview, hurried home to brush up on his shorthand...
Tourists driving through Eastern Canada this summer will spot new blue-and-white service stations at many a crossroad and street corner. They are the gas and oil outlets of Canadian Petrofina, an aggressive subsidiary of La Compagnie Financière Beige des Pétroles, which broke into the market only three years ago and has already moved from nowhere to fourth place (behind Imperial, British American, and Shell) among Canada's 19 gas and oil distributors...
Despite such intercontinental migraines, to say nothing of frequent bannings and occasional confiscations, TLI now delivers some 400,000 copies of TIME each week to every corner of the earth, all before the issue date. Among these foreign subscribers, the most common name worldwide is Smith (it's Hansen in Scandinavia, Singh in Asia, Garcia in Latin America). For the most part the subscribers are in business, government and the professions. But whatever their names or jobs, these overseas TIME families tend to support our original assumption. Says the TLI history: "Our readers abroad are a remarkably homogeneous group...
While Africa strained under the growing pressure of racial tension, a strange and polychromic group of idealists, white, black and brown, gathered last week on the southern shore of Nyasaland's windy and beautiful Lake Nyasa. From every corner of east and central Africa, by every means of transportation, they traveled to a wooded rise perched above the surf-tossed shores where lions and gazelles had roamed only a few weeks before. With them they brought an idea that they hope will change all Africa into a land without racial barriers or bitterness...
Superficially, says Wilson, the Outsider is just a social misfit, a "hole-in-corner man." In novels he sits in his room by the hour, spends days observing other men's lives. In real life an Outsider type like Van Gogh lived 29 of his 36 years before he knew himself to be a painter. In a sense, the Outsider is a man waiting for his authentic vocation. But why does he turn in disgust from the "practical" house, wife-and children-minded world of his "bourgeois" (no Marxist connotations) fellow man? For Wilson, Nijinsky summed...