Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour grows late in the Dining Hall, and the steam table has been cleared for a long time, but in a corner of the room, three tables have been pulled together and a group of students and tutors are discussing a novel being written by an English concentrator sitting at the table...
...from the Strait of Gibraltar (its Moorish legions settled in Seville) to dark Senegal and the swamps of the Niger. The new kingdom of Morocco occupies about a fifth of this old Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north of legendary Timbuktu. Except for the coastal strip it is sun-scorched desert, rich in minerals, which the French, since they finally subdued the tribes...
...land on the east side of DeWolfe Street--opposite the site of the new House--is owned largely by St. Paul's Catholic Church and the building at the north corner of DeWolfe and Grant Streets is likewise not owned by the University. Therefore, this position is nearly out of the question as far as construction in the near future is concerned...
...elections, some of Ike's heretofore staunch backers have also taken issue with the Administration. Earlier this month Frazar B. Wilde, President of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. and a member of the Committee for Economic Development (which has usually been in Ike's corner), warned a congressional committee that the rising level of federal spending would lead to more inflation, questioned the need for increased federal funds for agriculture and for buying home mortgages-both policies backed by the Administration...
Heckscher held the center of the court with amazing consistency, and drove Griffiths around the court with his sharp expertly placed drives, corner shot and drop shots. Although his usual razor sharp accuracy was slightly below par, Heckscher had too many guns for his Navy opponent...