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Word: hung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally believed to be 39. The girl in-the play, emotionally mature, is a-passionate, complex personality. Mary Pickford has-created most of her reputation playing girls whose naivete was proved as thoroughly by their, actions-as by their wide-open blue eyes and the ringlets which hung, symbols of virginity, on their thin shoulders. On the stage, able young Actress Helen Hayes set a high standard of vocal expression in reading the lines. Mary Pickford has not performed vocally, for many a year. Her script was hurt when its sex morality was .cut over for film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...record of three victories, one defeat, and one tie was hung up by the Crimson baseball forces in their initial week of action. Cold weather caused the cancellation of the games with Boston University which was scheduled to usher in the season, and with Georgetown on the Southern trip. William and Mary, Richmond, and Catholic University were the victims of the Harvard singers while the Quantico Marines repeated their 1928 performance by handing Coach Mitchell's charges their first setback of the season. The game with Columbia on Saturday was called at the end of the ninth frame with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE TAKES THREE, LOSES ONE, TIES ONE ON SOUTHERN TRIP | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...combination steam locomotive and passenger car. Within a sheet steel inclosure is a steam generator only 6 ft. high by 4 ft. diameter. Oil distillate, left after crude oil is refined, keeps superheated steam under 550 to 600 Ibs. pressure. The steam automatically operates two driving engines hung from the car body, and an auxiliary engine which operates lights, fans, pumps. Built experimentally by International Harvester Co.* and the Ryan Car Co., tested by the Illinois Central since last August, this locomotor easily maintains a 60 m. p. h. speed with full load...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Locomotives | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Ralph T. Walker of Manhattan has designed a brown, congenial, masculine study for a country house. Two octagonal electric lanterns are hung by rods which pass through slots in the ceiling. They may be raised for general illumination, lowered for reading, moved laterally to any desired position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Indoor Architecture | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Only for the most feminine of ladies is the velvet-hung bedroom by John Well-born Root of Chicago. Peach-rose, grey and silver are the dominant shades. A mirror, framed with willowy figures in black and white etched glass, is lighted indirectly from behind. Visitors are captivated by the semicircular pewter dressing table and swivel chair for the convenient or pensive rotation of the owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Indoor Architecture | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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