Word: hung
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...work. At first Columbia obtained a slight advantage and led by three yards at the railroad bridge; but when the lower bridge was reached, Harvard's slow and steady work had brought her a foot or two ahead, and now this lead was steadily increased. Columbia struggled desperately, and hung on for another half-mile, and up to that point, a little below the first mile-flag, she gave Harvard a hard race. Here the two boats came into dangerous proximity; for a few strokes they rowed over and under each other's oars, and people held their breath. "Harvard...
...Hung with medals round, not square...
...good quality can be had for nearly the same sum as one which has for a subject a herd of enraged buffaloes tearing over it. And what shows aesthetic taste more than a Persian tapestry with a couple of odd plates, a cup and saucer or two, hung over one's chimney-piece? The question of curtains is perhaps a more difficult one. Here a man must consult his means. Anything Turkish or Moorish looks well; but if that involves too much expense, chintz or cretonne curtains are preferable to so many yards of red cloth...
...enough of culture and too much"; and from another source, that culture is the aim of a University education. The result of all this is, that we are in very nearly the same condition we were a week ago. In one respect we are changed. The leisure time that hung so heavily upon our hands is leisure time no more. Long lists of profound and valuable works have been given us, and reading sufficient to occupy the time of an industrious man for ten years at least has been furnished for the next nine months. Those who have taken courses...
...bicycle club has been formed at Cambridge, for the purpose of "encouraging proficiency in bicycling among the members of the University," and of "being a centre of information for those who are unacquainted with the country." They have a club-room "hung with maps of the adjacent country on a large scale, the different roads being classified according to their average fitness for bicycling purpose." Some notion of their proficiency may be gathered from the notice of a meet at 1 P. M. on the 21st ult., when it was proposed to ride 44 miles during the afternoon...