Search Details

Word: hung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Asked whether he had ever had improper relations with Daughter Barbara (the State contended that he had killed the doctor to conceal incest), Father Carroll hung his head, waited until his attorney got the question struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: South Parisians | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...captain, 80th Infantry Division, A.E.F.), he had the nerve to write a letter to the then Chief of Staff, detailing what was wrong with the army and what to do about it. Fresh out of the University of Virginia (where he was champion wrestler and orator) he hung out his law shingle at Clarksburg, W. Va., in 1912. By 1917, he was Democratic floor leader of the State's House of Delegates, and was thinking of running for Governor. Back from the War, he went into partnership with seasoned Philip P. Steptoe of Clarksburg, soon was earning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Arms Before Men | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

When the Lutine bell, hung at the entrance to Lloyd's underwriting room in Leadenhall Street, London, rings once, it signifies bad news for ship brokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sunken Treasure | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Transcontinental & Western Air passenger plane took off from San Francisco, flew into a storm, disappeared. Three months later, Prospector H. O. Collier came upon its wreckage, strewn over a Sierra Nevada mountainside. The plane had been smashed to bits, but its tail had caught in a tree, hung high as a dead goose. The weeks of fruitless search for this and other lost planes have piled added horror on the original disaster, added worry and heavy expense for airline operators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Plane Finder | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...News Veteran Edgar Ansel Mowrer. The democracies, following the lead of Hitler's visit to Rome, were themselves putting on a whopping big show of friendship. At the last minute the $1,000,000 official decoration of Paris for the State visit was multiplied by householders, shopkeepers who hung out flags, bunting, streamers and pictures of Their Majesties. Good-natured French throngs surged on the sidewalks, twisting their tongues in preparation for singing God Save The King. They were aided by phonetic spellings in the words published by Paris papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Warning to Dictators | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | Next