Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President B. 0. Miller, a grey-haired, soft-spoken man who took office a fortnight ago, is carrying on the tradition that members hang their private hats outside. When it looked as though he would be elected president, he reorganized his real-estate business (W. I. Hollingsworth & Co.) and moved himself up from president to chairman so that he could have more time for the Chamber...
Football trips to Princeton and Army hang in the balance of the Harvard Band's current campaign to save its staggering financial situation by commercial recordings and concert tours. The Cornell trip has definitely been eliminated...
...Italian Republic. The flag-raising ceremony at the Quirinal Palace left Italians cautiously optimistic. In a fashionable church in the Corso d'ltalia a pale-faced friar exclaimed: "No miracle is impossible to God. It is not impossible for God to lift the angry clouds that hang so heavily on 1948's beginning." Barbanera (Black-beard), a popular almanac of astrology, predicted for 1948: "Unsuccessful diplomatic encounters . . . conflict avoided in the nick of time...
...plane for Africa last week on a strange errand. Esther Cummings was off to visit Egypt, Ethiopia, the Sudan and the Belgian Congo, to put in practice a phonetic language-learning system she had been taught by her missionary father. With it, she thought she could get the hang of any native tongue in three or four days. Her mission (sponsored by the United and Southern Presbyterian Boards): to teach the natives how to teach their own languages to the missionaries...
...last game of this disasterous foray to the west, the sextet pulled itself together and matched the Gophers goal or goal until they broke away in the final stanza to hang up four goals and make the final score...