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Word: hangs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eliot men must hang together," the mysterious visitant went on, as Vag felt uneasily for his collar. "May I?" said the intruder, as he helped himself to the last cigarette on the desk, nestled himself into an easy chair, and removed his tweed wrappings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/5/1947 | See Source »

...Organized labor had managed to hang on to most of its stalwarts, many of them Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...spite of these non-human characteristics, tarsiers are genuine primates. They can stand upright, like a man; their spinal columns, like man's, hang from the base of the skull. Instead of claws, they have long, spatulate fingers and tiny fingernails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cousin from Mindanao | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...souls. They must be suckled not on clerical and patriotic values, but on Darwinism, anthropology, ethnology, Freudianism (one of Author Wylie's wilder notions is that some children should be placed on an island, "reached by tunnel from the mainland," where feeding-bottles and other nourishment will hang from bushes-giving peeking scientists a chance to study inborn faculties at their most virginal). Only when the resulting adult is thus "aware" and "conscious in the instinctual sense" will he experience true "illumination," "inward experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whiff into the Midnight | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Primary function of the Center, Hamlen stated, would be as a sort of "transient meeting place where any of Harvard's 82,000 Alumni visiting Cambridge could hang their coat, rest their weary bones, or thaw out after a football game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plans to Establish Alumni Center Progress; Clubhouse May Be Used | 2/27/1947 | See Source »

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