Word: hung
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long training, the tense waiting, the terrible hours preceding the second battle of the Marne when the fate of civilization and the Allied cause hung in the balance are all described with an intensity and vigor which carries the reader along with the narrator. The story reaches its climax on November 11th, 1918, and the book concludes with a most entertaining chapter dealing with life and conditions in the Army of Occupation in conquered Germany and an appendix containing an imposing list of citations won by the M. C. Men of the 2nd Division...
...recently been sent to Armenia have been captured by Turkish forces, with the result that Armenia is starving and helpless. You may not believe it, but the Turks are now forcing the youth of Armenia into the Turkish army and are giving them a single alternative--that of being hung...
...Smoker, for the class of 1919 will have no other this year. It will be a smoker with all the trimmings that please some and bore others; rows of long wooden tables; plates of cheese and pretzels, movies in which Douglas Fairbanks will climb all ever the wrinkled sheet hung at the end of the Living Room, and the inevitable speeches. It is altogether fitting that the Seniors should celebrate in the manner of their pre-war Freshman and Sophomore years the last evening before they conceal their physical eccentricities and their precarious relations with the College Office beneath caps...
...Edward Bangs Drew '63, retired senior commissioner of the Imperial Maritime Customs of China, stated his views about the recent anti-German developments in China in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Mr. Drew was secretary of the embassy of Li Hung Chang to the United States in 1896, and was chairman of the executive committee of the Medical School of China. He was twice decorated by the former Chinese Emperor. He is also ex-president of the Royal Asiatic Society of Shanghai and a Fellow of the Eastern Asiatic Society of Boston...
...White Colonial columns and lattices covered with smilax enclosed the boxes, and strings of rosebuds lit with tiny electric bulbs draped from the chandeliers. Baskets of lotus set on columns, marked the entrance to the Living Room. The orchestra was enclosed behind spreading fans of flowers. From the balcony hung the American flag, while at the other end was the Harvard 1918 banner. The several hundred who attended the dance proclaimed it a success and were loath to leave when the orchestra played "Home, Sweet Home...