Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shell soon slid, ahead, however, while the Senior boat dropped slowly behind the other two. At the Harvard Bridge the Sophomores led by a length, with the Juniors the same distance ahead of the 1927 crew. Just beyond this point, however, the Sophomores pulled steadily away. The Seniors hung on to the Juniors' redder until the Henley, but then fell back. At the finish the 1929 crew led the Juniors by four lengths, with the 1928 shell three lengths ahead of the Seniors...
David Lloyd George was dining at the Savoy. His white Welsh mustache trembled slightly as he masticated a chop. In his pocket was an ordinary overcoat check; but the attendant, awed, had hung the coat in a closet distinct from the common coatroom...
...between the steward for the time being and the students. In the good old days when the commons was on the ground floor of Massachusetts, and the pig stys were under the windows, if the students did not like the dinner, they threw it at the steward. Nevertheless, they hung together. In 1876 the board at Memorial Hall was about $3.90 a week, quite as good and of greater variety than the ordinary students' table nowadays...
...skyscraper should have a distinguished portrait in it. Clarence H. Mackay, President of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., decided Cardinal Hayes was fit subject for such a portrait, to be hung in the new Knights of Columbus club hotel, N. Y. And Sir John Lavery of London, thought Mr. Mackay, was a fit artist. Last week the commission was announced...
...haze of legal phraseology and latinized please which hung over the Superior Criminal Court of East Cambridge yesterday the average uninformed layman can discern three points: one, the court's decision, is a fact and therefore serious; the second is an analogy and consequently a bit whimsical; the third might be called subtle and is certainly rich in allusions...