Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...location would be next to Littauer, on land now occupied by Lawrence Hall, a Graduate School of Education building. The other site is the corner of Kirkland St. and Divinity Ave., opposite the Busch-Reisinger Museum...
From barrio to barrio, and on every city street corner, the name of Ramon Magsaysay rang across the Philippines last week. Election day was only four weeks off, and every presidential and congressional candidate was busily trying to identify himself with the late great President, who was killed in an airplane crash only seven months ago. "Keep faith with Magsaysay!" cried the Nacionalistas of President Carlos P. Garcia, the smooth, shrewd politician who succeeded to the presidency on Magsaysay's death. "Magsaysay was our guy; now Yulo is our Magsaysay," proclaimed the Liberals, ignoring the fact that Ramon Magsaysay...
...street corner in Manhattan's Times Square, a bronze tablet marked the site of the birth 69 years ago of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill. A few years before he died in 1953, O'Neill was sent a photograph of his bygone birthplace, then a family hotel, since razed. In his thank-you note, the prize-laden (a Nobel and four Pulitzers) dramatist quipped about a figure, leaning against a lamppost in the picture's foreground, having "a bun on," was moved to reminisce: "In the old days, when I was born...
...second goal followed almost immediately. Dartmouth kicked off at midfield, lost the ball, and in a few seconds, the Crimson broke through them. Right wing Ken McLntosh scored the second comforting goal as he crossed a shot past Malin into the upper left corner of the cage...
Only fifteen men live in the Monastery at the present time. Each inhabits a monastic cell, a single room equipped with a cot, a spindly desk, one chair, a chest-of-drawers, a closet, and a lamp. There is a wash basin in one corner and a bathroom down the hall. The only adornment on the wall is a crucifix. Simple white curtains frame the window...