Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other current of news, breadlines in New York City stretched out for blocks. The Bowery Y. M. C. A. was feeding 12,000 jobless per day. Manhattan's Church of the Transfiguration ("The Little Church Around the Corner") opened, for the first time since 1907, free meal counters for 1,000 unemployed per day. Mrs. Irving T. Bush set up a food dispensary which lined up the jobless for two blocks. Demands on charity organizations doubled. Colyumist Heywood Broun started a "Give-a-job-till-June" crusade in the New York Telegram...
...prefer to make his own home brew, but if he does not there is ample opportunity to get what he wants at prices that he can or will afford. We do not subscribe to the idea that all speakeasies cater to the rich. The back room behind the corner grocery store in the average working community is just as much a speakeasy as the most elaborately furnished bar off Fifth Avenue...
Tests are now being made-of the soil in the plot at the corner of Mill and Plympton Streets in preparation for the building of House Unit No. 4. The consistency of the material must be known in order to prepare for laying the foundation...
Mary went down to the corner...
...Carrol '31 were at first while J. J. Carver '30 and E. J. Des Roches '31 changed off at second. E. H. McGrath '31 alternated with J. H. O'Neill at short and R. J. Des Roches '32 and P. A. Ketchum '31 took turns at the hot corner...