Word: hang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the sun came up, it fell upon a black thing hanging from a tree four miles from Alamo. There was a scribbled note attached: "To hang here till 4 p. m. Thursday...
Fourteen U. S. universities must now find space to hang 100 pictures apiece. The French donors frankly admit a shrewd purpose behind the gift. They are alarmed by growing competition with German universities. Since the War thousands of U. S. students seeking a continental education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered...
...year has been 83 (low 72) the inference would be that the purchase was made somewhat by the outsider's proverbial system of buying at the high and selling at the low. Yet, with railroads showing best earnings in years, Mr. Broun might well be told to hang on to his railroad stock, nor let his heart be troubled...
...Tokyo lately, 400 university students were asked by the house committee of an English-speaking society to decide by ballot which were the Ten Greatest Englishmen. The plan: to hang portraits of the Big Ten in the society's clubhouse. The students elected the following Big Ten: Robert Louis Stevenson, Admiral Nelson, Ramsay MacDonald, George Bernard Shaw, Edward I., David Lloyd George, Shakespeare, Darwin, Adam Smith, Pitt the Younger...
...clubmen, bewildered, decided to hang ten British landscapes. U. S. and British professors, amused, wondered if there were 400 students in the U. S. or England who could so much as name ten famed Japanese...