Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Columnist Brisbane did more than grumble. He sneered: "Borrowers should send three large gilt balls to be hung above the Federal Reserve Bank entrance, and similar ornaments to some of the big banks." He threatened: "This is what the law of New York State says, Section 370: 'The legal rate of interest shall not be more than $6 on $100 for one year.' Every bank charging more than 6% interest is violating the law and knows...
Down House, in Kent, where Charles Darwin wrote his Origin of Species, has been acquired as a public memorial. The Hon. John Collier, who painted portraits of Darwin and his publicist Huxley, has made duplicates of the pictures to be hung in Down House...
Flags and bunting flew in Topeka, Kan. An enormous portrait of the inmate was hung outside a bedroom window of a modest frame house in a leafy residential street. Citizens made holiday. Indians made whoopee. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio made a speech-and Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas became formally aware that he was Number...
...Civil War, developed the principles of osteopathy. Basic is his theory that health persists only when the joints and other skeletal articulations function normally. This is especially important for the ribs, spine, pelvis. If the bones are in proper relation, then flesh, nerves and other parts of the anatomy hung on to them, function properly and prevent the invasion of disease. Inversely, to cure disease, the doctor must manipulate the bones into natural position. Hence the fundamental osteopathic principle: "Find the lesion, adjust it, and let it alone." Dr. Still established his theories as a new school of medicine...
...brave monarch does not hesitate when a great forest and grain fire is ravaging his realm. Last week Little Tsar Boris sallied forth to Southern Bulgaria, over which hung a wispish smoke pall. For three days green forests had been turning into fields of black stumps, white villas into red embers, and fields of ripe grain into roaring bonfires. Naturally His Majesty the Tsar, a bachelor, was accompanied into the fire zone by his good and faithful sister, Her Royal Highness the Princess Eudoxia. She, too, is brave...