Word: hang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each wheel to bounce independently. President Chapin is convinced that the public is more interested in performance than innovations. Since he returned to Hudson from Washington, where he was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce, President Chapin has sent Terraplanes into one hill-climbing contest after another, to hang up some 70 records. And he has pulled Hudson out of its deep, deep hole...
...city editor of Senator Kendrick's Democratic Cheyenne State Leader. Senator Kendrick took his young editor to Washington, put him to work on speeches and meat packing legislation. But Secretary O'Mahoney found spare time to study law. After three years he went back to Cheyenne to hang out his shingle. In another four years he was directing the Democratic campaign which made Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (now Director of the U. S. Mint) Wyoming's Governor. Finally, a Democratic Na tional Committeeman, he lobbied in Washington for Wyoming's gigantic Casper-Alcova Dam project which...
...been too busy nosing around among other people's works to finish his own. Prometheans, like his Titans of Literature published last year, is an enthusiastic notebook proclaiming the virtues of some of his favorites. St. Mark serves gusty Author Rascoe as a peg on which to hang his theory, already secondhand, that the real Jesus was a political zealot named Simon Bar Gi'ora, that the four Gospels were really an allegory of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Rome. Not Petronius Arbiter but his more rapscallion son, thinks Author Rascoe, was the author of the famed Satyricon...
Martial law snapped Hans Breitweiser up greedily. The court had two choices: clean acquittal or conviction with death. Quickly convicted, he was sentenced to hang within three hours. Between the judge's grave words, Hans Breitweiser could hear the clunk-clunk of shovels outside digging a hole for his gallows...
...must wait for a child's development of the nervous system. In our experiments we. may have hastened the ripening process of the nervous system, or we may have simply given the nervous system a chance to function." Almost simultaneously Jimmy and Johnny lost the ability to hang suspended by their fingers. They learned to sit up on practically the same day. When the infants started to reach for toys, to crawl, walk and climb, Dr. McGraw left Jimmy to his own development, helped Johnny improve his. The effect on Johnny has been to make him bold, self-confident...