Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in his studio, he had the additional thought of disposing his figures on the grass like those in the lower right-hand corner of Raphael's lost Judgment of Paris, which he knew from Raimondi's engraved copy (above...
...Rear. Up "Heartbreak Hill," the steep slope near Boston College, Pulkkinen began to turn it on. He passed Costes, but he could not hold the pace. Behind him, and gaining steadily, was Hamamura, the tireless Japanese. When he passed the Leyden Congregational Church, Hamamura was in front. At Coolidge Corner, the last check point, he was right up with the course record set by his countryman, Keizo Yamada, in 1953. "Record, y'understan'? Record!" screamed a reporter from the press bus. Hamamura, who understood not a word, grinned back, a gold tooth glinting through the mist...
Gruen was injured at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Sts. He ran into a '55 Oldsmobile operated by Thomas S. McIntyre, a Watertown resident. The Olds was dented in two places...
...most friendly employees of all were some Ivy League types in dinner jackets, who stood on pulpits in one corner of the Armory to sermonize about the so-called "dream cars of tomorrow." General Motors was giving America the future as it had given the past--designed by M.I.T. men and sold by Yalies, and for awhile the audience couldn't get enough of it. The figures about compression ratios were just as dazzling to those who didn't understand them. But the statistical inspiration finally got tedious, and no one was sorry to see the General Motors Philharmonic take...
...victory gave McGinnis and friends control of a road with 3,200 miles of track in New England and a 1954 operating profit of $3,987,721. With the B. & M., McGinnis now controls 80% of all the railroad business in New England. In his corner in this fight, McGinnis had such prominent New Englanders as Burton M. Cross, former governor of Maine, and Francis P. Murphy, onetime governor of New Hampshire, plus Pierre ("Spike") Dumaine, brother of Frederic ("Buck") Dumaine, from whom McGinnis had wrested the New Haven. Spike Dumaine, who felt that he had been forced to take...