Word: hang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania's 78 delegates, and Senator La Follette, who will have Wisconsin's delegation and some other votes from the Northwest. But because of Mr. La Follette's ill health and his "insurgency" he is not regarded as a serious contender. On the outskirts will hang several favorite sons, such as ex-Governor Lowden of Illinois, Senator Watson of Indiana and Judge Kenyon of Iowa, eager to step forward if the Coolidge forces should slip or fall into a deadlock with Senator Johnson-but not otherwise likely to be active...
Asgrimur Jonsson, foremost painter of Iceland, has been pensioned by the Althing (Icelandic Parliament) to allow him to continue his work unhampered. Six of his paintings hang in the Legislative Assembly Hall. The Government is assisting ten other painters to study in Denmark and other Continental art centers. The Iceland painters are but slightly touched by modernism; their subjects deal largely with the wild snow and ice-scapes of their native land...
...Johnson's hold on the Progressives having weakened because he followed the " regulars " too closely in the last Congress. At any rate, both Californians, following this first bloom of their candidacies, must pass through a long and hazardous growing season before the ripe fruit of election can hang from their laden boughs...
...award of the varsity "P" to the ten surviving members of the Princeton football team that first played Yale in 1873 recalls the days when football was less a science than a rough and tumble for bewhiskered gentlemen. On the walls of the Union there still hang quaint photographs to testify to the ferocious appearance of these doughty warriors. And the historian is apt to write that the last half of the past century saw the beginning of all things football. But an even more ancient lineage can be traced...
...teams had their final work outs in the Stadium yesterday. Early in the afternoon, Coach Casey sent his men through their drill, concentrating largely on perfecting forward passes. An hour later Coach Fisher was drilling his men in blocking them. It is felt that on the forward pass will hang the outcome of the game today. Tufts serial attack is good, and Harvard's defense against overhead attack has, to date, been poor. The catching or the blocking of a pass may prove of infinite importance today...