Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left off, take his Divisional or General Exams, do tutorial, write his thesis, and finish his remaining Law work. This is a brief-case full of work to say the least, and his last year will be a hair-raising wait for news of the two degrees which hang in the balance...
...have given up waiting for the telephone to ring. When they said history is made at night this is what they were talking about. Mary, the petite and pretty Irish girl who dispenses the drinks up there, can hold her own with any of the so-called wits who hang around the club. They don't come smart enough to phase her. For those who like to dance there is nickelodeon with one of those newfangled telephone attachments. The dancing space is not very large, but it serves its purpose. Every once in a while a good boogie-woogie player...
Throughout the world last week life seemed to hang suspended on the eve of great events. Between the warring countries, and within them, forces were so closely in balance that positive action anywhere threatened to tip the scales sharply one way or the other. And all over the world statesmen, desperate or sanguine, knew, if the U. S. did not, that the biggest potential source of such positive action was the U. S. For positive acts, which the U. S. has at its fingertips, include not only aid to Britain, but loans for Latin America (see p. 58), food...
What it means to hang back? I don't think...
...design and purpose of Men of Good Will, in this volume as in others, is clear and noble. Its handling is so serious, exact and ample, that it is extremely difficult, page by page, to sense any lack. Romains is highly adequate to his great task: his adequacies hang on the walls of his work like so many diplomas. The only question is whether adequacy is enough. An undertaking of such grandeur as this requires something that no amount of intelligence, intention and industry can combine to earn: a corresponding grandeur of treatment which French genius, specializing in minor perfections...