Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear that the acceleration is an insidious attempt to snare Mr. Right before he goes marching off to the South Seas. College girls have long suffered from the competition of working girls, who don't have to grow old while they wait for a diploma. If they had to hang around Cambridge for one or two years after the accelerated Harvard man graduated, the case would be nearly hopeless. The obvious solution was this feebly disguised attempt to race the draft board...
...Private school headmasters usually hang on until a ripe o'l age, but Browne & Nichols (Cambridge, Mass.) lost one last week not on account of his old age but on account of his youth. The Army claimed Browne & Nichols' Headmaster Geoffrey Whitney Lewis. Undaunted, the school elected in his place another youngster: 36-year-old Assistant Professor Warren Seyfert of Harvard, which is just next door. A teacher in Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Seyfert is rated one of the faculty's ablest men. He believes that New England preparatory schools are still too hidebound...
...25th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I was a quiet day, in which the new war seemed to hang in a vacuum. Only in Bataan were U.S. soldiers fighting the enemy hand-to-hand; news of U.S. naval and air battles trickled through slowly from scattered reaches of the Pacific; sometimes the U.S. did not seem...
...week's end most of the correspondents, well schooled in home-is-where-you-hang-your-hat, had got themselves settled in two "certain hotels" in the "same city," were scouting around for the most likely action spots...
...polishes off the choice Maryland rye that teetotaling Holden fetches him from the drugstore, and bellows: "Rascals and poltroons! Every one of 'em. If I were in charge, I'd do with them what I should have done to Henry Clay." "What's that?" inquires Holden. "Hang 'em!" says Old Hickory...