Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which have kept scientists mystified for over a month now, gave their followers a new start when it was found early yesterday morning that their motion had stopped. The twin baskets have maintained a slow twirling motion, except for a brief interruption two weeks ago, since they were first hung up last October. Numerous attempts had been made to explain their motion, which seemed perpetual, visitors flocked daily to the Museum to see the University's modern wonder. Then yesterday when people came in to watch them at their expected rounds were astounded to see them motionless. They still hung...
...long line of cars put back to Picayune. When they came to the bridge, the gentlemen adjusted the rope and paused for a moment to enjoy the joke. Then they told Jackson to jump. When the body, its last hideous paroxysm over, hung limp and awry on the rope's end, the cars moved on, their headlights following each other out of sight, into the darkness...
...goddess of the white race of Tuaregs (Berbers). In the crumbling frame of a carved wooden couch lay the six-foot skeleton of a personage, seemingly female, littered with beads, carbuncles, garnets, gold and silver objects, glass balls, with black and yellow designs like eyes. On the arm bones hung massive bracelets?eight on the right, seven on the left?of gold alloyed with copper and some other metal, perhaps antimony, which would link the artifacts definitely with Punic work done at Carthage, on the Sahara's north edge, before its conquest by Rome in 146 B. C. The beads...
...collection of the engravings of Albrecht Durer will be on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. This collection is the second in size and quality of any in this country. The exhibit has been hung especially for the benefit of the returning graduates. Work of students in oils and etchings which has been done this year as well as the most recent acquisitions of the Museum will be on view...
There was a figure like an English country gentleman-Mr. George H. Doran. There was a firm-jawed, genial Virginian-John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co. There was a well-preserved gentleman of some 67 summers, upon whose watch-chain hung a small gold ivy leaf-Arthur Hawley Scribner, who with his older brother Charles has carried on the business begun by their father in 1846. The swarthy gentleman whose dress, manner and accent bespoke the complete cultured cosmopolite was Alfred A. Knopf, master of the coursing Borzoi hound; the handsome lady with him -Mrs. Knopf...