Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 4--President Eisenhower announced today that he will undertake an unprecedented 20,000-mile good will mission next month to nine nations on three continents. The pre-Christian tour will take Eisenhower to Europe, Asia and a corner of Africa...
Harvard immediately began a sustained attack, and made its first score in the second period. Right wing Phil Hime set up the play by lobbing a corner kick into the penalty area. The Andover goalie attempted to punch the ball over the goal and out of bounds, but it went into...
...Morgan, which created huge industrial firms, bailed out whole governments and at the turn of the century all but controlled the financial destiny of the U.S. Morgan is still a name to conjure with. Its famed building at 23 Wall St. is known throughout the financial world as "The Corner." Said an international banker with an account at Alexander's bank: "When I cash a check abroad, they never look at my signature; they look at the name Morgan and cash it immediately...
...Ears. The family skated on the edge of poverty. When it moved to Port Huron, Mich., twelve-year-old Tom got a job as a news and candy butcher on the daily train to Detroit. The conductor let him build a tiny laboratory in a corner of the baggage car, and Tom fiddled with test tubes, chemicals and batteries. One morning, his arms full of newspapers, Tom tried to swing on to the departing train. He would have fallen under the wheels if a trainman had not hauled him aboard by the ears. Something "snapped...
...electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street panic, when the "Erie Railroad Ring" tried to corner the nation's gold supply. As the crowd surged wildly about him-a prominent banker went mad and had to be restrained by five men-Edison shook hands with a colleague, commented later: "I felt happy because we were poor...