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Word: corners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karp, whose "every good fortune spattered others with misfortune, as if there were just so much luck in the world and what Karp left over wasn't fit to eat." Morris Bober's troubles never come singly. Not only has a brand-new grocery opened around the corner, halving his already pitiful income, but a pair of inept hoodlums, passing up Karp's well-heeled liquor store, rob Morris instead and pistol-whip him when they find only $10 in his cash register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Grocer | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...cafe au lait she has drunk, and her only feeling of dread, that provoked by the approaches of the young man sitting across from her. The Harvard community now supports two of these reasonable facsimilies. Like (and, of course, pointedly unlike) the corner soda fountain, the coffee houses, with their exotically late hours, provide not only somewhere to meet, but someplace...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Creeping Continentalism: In Search of the Exotic | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

...eldest son, Moulay Hassan. When only three, Moulay Hassan remembers, his father took him to a diplomatic reception and told him: "You must speak, say something, anything."; The little boy sat through the evening sucking his thumb. When the guests had gone, his father angrily thrust him into a corner. Says Moulay Hassan: "I'm not timid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Man of Balances | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...week-long blood drive will begin today at the University Lutheran Church instead of Memorial Hall where it has been usually held. The Lutheran Church is located behind the IAB at the corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Opens Spring Blood Drive Today | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...halfway mark, however, the Crimson had managed to intersperse some good rugby with its generally sloppy play, and winger Ron Eikenberry took a pass from Jim Damis to score a fine try in the corner. (3-3). Jim Joslin came up with a beautiful conversion (taken from opposite where the ball is grounded) to add the two extra points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Beat New Yorkers Here, 13 to 3 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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