Word: hung
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long time ago, prisons were used as a place of detention pending the trial of the prisoner, and if he was convicted pending his death, for then men were hung for most crimes. The other use of the prisons was as a place to put men who could not pay their debts...
Pennsylvania hung up a new world's record when it won the sprint medley relay race in 3 minutes 28 3-5 seconds. Meredith, captain of the Pennsylvania team and holder of several world's records, stepped the last relay, the half-mile, in 1 minute 54 4-5 seconds, which is within 1 2-5 seconds of the intercollegiate record and exceptionally fast considering the condition of the track...
...Dana '74, for many years president of the Cambridge Historical Society, on behalf of the society, has presented the Library with two portraits by Copley. These portraits of Henry Vassall and his wife, prominent citizens of Cambridge before the Revolutionary War, will be hung in the treasure room of the Library...
...University to secure sufficient funds to purchase the painting of Professor Royce, Professor James, and Professor Palmer, known as "Three Harvard Philosophers." The portrait is the work of Mr. Winifred Rieber, of Berkeley, California, and in the event of its being acquired by the University will probably be hung in the Widner Library...
Every member of the editorial aggregation played in major league style. "Steamship" Hall held the opposing stick-wielders in awe-struck submissiveness, while "Red" stiles hung onto his hot stuff with well-nigh sublime efficiency. In the field, "Wild West" Ingram brought exclamations of delight to the lips of every beholder, and accepted the most difficult chances with utter sang froid. Prexy Graves was a demon at the bat, and scampered around the bags like a yearling gazelle; and "Duffy" Lewis came through with a three-bagger every once in a while...