Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...padding under it, and weighing approximately 100 pounds. A shelf projecting some six or eight inches from the circumference encircled the dummy about three feet from the bottom and was for the purpose of compelling the men to get their heads down under it when tackling. This device was hung vertically by a rope in the gymnasium and while it undoubtedly taught the men to tackle low and was the embroyo of a contrivance since developed into universal usage, it was so heavy and so hard that a good many men came away from the dummy drills injured, some suffering...
...possession of the University since 1856, when it was presented by Dr. J. C. Warren. The gift marked the one hundred and third anniversary of the conferring on Franklin of a Harvard master of arts degree. During the time the painting has been owned by the University it has hung in Memorial Hall, though it was removed some time ago to be given a thorough cleansing in the Fogg Museum. It has just been placed in Lehman Hall...
Above the microphone hung a large poster picture of Alvaro Obregon, and upon the further wall a photograph of his widow, children. Everyone in the room smoked incessantly, the audience, the reporters, the nine jurymen and the judge. For what was being broadcast was the trial of José de Leon Toral and the nun, who is charged with being his "intellectual accomplice," Madre Concepci...
Doom came to the President-reject in a cavernous Manhattan armory. He went to it, with a plentiful supply of cigars, from his wife's birthday party, a strange party over which had hung the atmosphere of a tremendous uncertainty...
...were all agog. They read the names Cezanne, Derain, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, all in one announcement. They rushed to the sedate, vermicular-stoned Wildenstein Galleries. There they paid $1 apiece for the benefit of the French Hospital, were permitted last week to maunder through two small rooms hung with 51 modernist French paintings of the first rank. Such a concourse is rare, even among Manhattan opportunities...