Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale crew hope to beat Harvard next year by a new stroke, which is pronounced by some who have seen it to be the first practical stroke Yale has ever adopted. The old hang at the end of the stroke is abolished, and several crooked little points are also done away with. In the new stroke, the reach is shorter than heretofore, to insure a strong and steady grip of the water, and to save the additional exertion formerly used in putting the blade back. In feathering, the blade will be horizontal instead of at an angle of forty-five...
...received me with dignified cordiality, and proceeded to give me points on his rooms. "Here, you see," he remarked, "these pictures are going to be hung in a row; they don't amount to much, but are handsomely framed, and I thought they would be first-rate to hang my medals on. Won't you propose me for the Art Club...
...shelves." (The books certainly did encumber enough space for Thackeray and Jane Austen's works and looked as if they at least had been read.) And so he went on. He had already "ragged" a sign, bearing the inscription "Harvard Laundry," which brilliant witticism he intended to hang over his mantel...
...this juncture the professor's fourth child, whose name we, unfortunately, have not room to print, began to bawl. The conversation was interrupted. The humane father proceeded to hang the child up by his cue to a peg on the Hospital's wall; and the reporter seized the opportunity to withdraw...
...cross-beams of the Gymnasium are so high that it will be impracticable to hang the "aerial machinery" from them. Probably it will be necessary to put in an iron framework nearer the floor, to remedy the error...