Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revival of the Advocate provides continuity to a tradition that includes such men as Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, George Lyman Kittredge '82, Theodore Roosevelt '80, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. Watt and his staff hang their shingle over the door. The magazine that appears tomorrow will bear the same motto. "Dulce est periculum." within its covers, and carry the same seal on its letterhead, the Advocate's traditional representation of Pegasus chained to a book. The College welcomes its oldest publication back to Cambridge...
...reception hall of the Atlanta Journal's 50,000-watt Station WSB ("Welcome South, Brother"), hang three plaques-awards from Variety for outstanding community service. Last week Manager John M. Outler tacked up a telegram announcing that the station had just won a fourth-for improvement of race relations in race-riven Georgia...
...There was a good precedent for mercy. In British annal's there was the case of a man the hangman could not hang. He was John Lee, a Devon murderer. On Feb. 23, 1885, he was thrice led, bound and black-hooded, to the gallows. In 30 minutes of trying, the hangman thrice released the trap and thrice it failed to open (rain had caused the wood to swell). Lee's death sentence was commuted to life in prison...
...soon to die there, the sheriff speaks with the tickled-pink fascination of a kid with a new erector set: "This is where we're going to execute them. . . . Over here is where the chair will be. We used to hang them. The noose came down here and the ropes were tied to the bars on this window here. Then we cut this trap in the floor here, and we dropped them below and they carried the bodies away. That made it neater. But now we've got the most modern improvements. Now we're going...
...programs usually end, as all proper radio serials should, with a cliff-hang: "Next time we'll see if Socrates hasn't some even unkinder things...