Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opened soon, just around the corner on Third Avenue from the first green-fronted store, a second: The Wholesome Products Co., malt & hops, imported cordials and glassware. This too was guarded by the Supreme Protective System, but the clerk, a mere youth, appeared to be in a state of chronic fright...
There is at present on exhibition in a corner of the Widener Treasure Room a display which holds a great deal of interest through its Harvard associations. This consists of several books owned by President Dunster during his presidency here from 1640 to 1654, and in addition, the one surviving book from John Harvard's library which was destroyed by fire...
...March the little Tsar himself left Sofia incognito?left behind a joyous and expectant people, thousands of whom had put Princess Giovanna's picture in one corner of their windowpanes and Tsar Boris' in the other. Sofia caf�s were hastily renamed Konditorei Giovanna. Delighted Bulgarian editors "learned on highest authority" that Pope Pius XI had agreed to the following compromise: all offspring of Roman Catholic Princess Giovanna except her first-born male would be reared as Roman Catholics; but the premier male, as Crown Prince of Bulgaria, would espouse the Eastern Orthodox religion in order to comply with...
...flame starting thin and blue at the corner of a sealed envelope, then spurting up yellow, crawling to the other corners, leaving a big curly cinder, transfixed the attention and curiosity of three high officials of the Salvation Army in a London barrister's office last week. The envelope was the one in which, last year, the late General William Bramwell Booth enclosed the name of the person whom he had chosen to succeed him as worldwide commander of the Army. None dared open the envelope for the dissension it might cause. Some think he named his daughter Catherine...
...rafters, Primo Camera, Italian monster (6 ft. 6 in.), strode toward the ring, grinning. He wore a bright green cap and a sleeveless sweater from which protruded biceps as big as a strong man's thigh. His weight was annonnced at 269½. In the opposite corner was his first U. S. opponent, Big Boy Peterson, a New Orleans Swede, only two inches shorter but 60 Ib. lighter. Big Boy stared with a white, sick face at the giant, and when the bell rang rushed toward him, was knocked down four times in quick succession, counted out. Camera hurried...