Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puny, next to the youngest in his class, he wobbled along For a couple of years, picking up a bit of wooden-ship lore on summer cruises in square-riggers, distinguishing himself not at all. But in his last two years at the Academy he began to get the hang of things, soon was holding his own with older classmates, serving as coxswain for the Academy's first cutter crew. He graduated 13th in a class of 47. Out of that class ('97) came seven admirals besides Tommy Hart...
...dignified, Romanesque doorway of the Yale University Art Gallery last fortnight arrived 450 strange-looking canvases, ranging from geometric abstractions to fantastic Dadaist scrawls: the second largest private collection of 20th-Century art in the U.S.* To hang of all 450 pictures, the Yale Art Gallery would have to build an extra wing. But meanwhile, Yale's gallery director, Theodore Sizer, planned to show the public as much as he could...
...this point, Joe wonders whether to explore the circular staircase ahead which seems to hang in mid-air, or to investigate the Exhibition Room on his left, or the Reading Room on his right. Choosing the former course, he encounters a souvenir stand where sight-seers might buy some postcards. Nearby is a warm-up kitchen for occasional tea parties...
...Leaving the more expensive masterpieces to his friend, the late Multimillionaire Peter A. B. Widener, Johnson concentrated on completeness and comprehensiveness. In a massive, Edwardian mansion on South Broad Street, Collector Johnson plastered walls from floor to ceiling with gilt-framed masterpieces. Finally strapped for space, he had to hang his canvases in bathrooms and inside closet doors. He even hung some on the foot...
...Robinson, born Walker Smith, first saw a pair of boxing gloves at the Brewster St. Recreation Center in his native Detroit, where, up to the time he was eight when his family moved to Harlem, he used to hang around watching Amateur Joe Louis and local big shots. He never laced on a glove until he was 13-and then only because he was urged to by Trainer George Gainford, who ran a gym in Harlem...