Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agassiz, who had made and hung curtains for the rooms and who was untiring in her devotion to the work, was made president in 1882. Three years later she helped raise the $20,000 necessary for the purchase of the historic Fay House, and when in 1890 still more space was needed, she was again a foremost worker in raising the needed funds. She and the others of the group of seven saw the work gradually but steadily extended and prosper until, in 1893, under Mrs. Agassiz's leadership negotiations were diplomatically conducted for Harvard to take over the management...
Subtler but just as resonant as the ballyhooing of the late Phineas Taylor Barnum was the publicity which preceded, last week, the public auction of two Renaissance paintings from the collection of Carl W. Hamilton of Manhattan. The two pictures were hung in a shadowy chamber in the Anderson Galleries. Tall candles gave an air of piety to the occasion. Uniformed Negroes stood gravely beside each canvas, so immobile, so harmonious with the austere gloom, that they were nearly invisible. Visitors hushed their voices, lightened their footsteps...
...Smith Halls will be decorated with the class colors, blue and white, while the quadrangle and space between Standish and Smith Halls will be hung with Japanese lanterns...
...river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping down from their tops, and of the bridge itself, hung from these chains by a myriad of suspension wires that made a harplike structure with strings of steel for the wind to play. So, in 1890, was formed the North River Bridge Co., a corporation dedicated solely to the building and operation of a Manhattan-Jersey bridge. Engineer...
...Crimson nine hung up its fifth win of the year, when it swamped the Springfield College team under a barrage of hits Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field, winning by an 11 to 3 score. It was one of the most uninteresting and most sloppily played games seen here in several seasons, and, although the home team made just as many miscues as the gymnasts, the superior batting of the Harvard aggregation behind the masterful pitching of Howard Whitmore '29 gave them the verdict...