Word: laids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this couplet, G. K. Chesterton hymned the traditional British inability to get from place to place by a direct route. About the only straight roads on the island are those laid out atop old Roman roads like famed Watling Street, which makes a 160-mile run from London to Wales. In the days of gas rationing, austerity and fewer cars, it was possible for the lucky few to speed across country or through cities with ease. But last week, its inadequate road net jammed with 8,000,000 cars, 1,500,000 motorcycles and uncounted millions of bicycles, Britain...
GENEVA, May 12--U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter laid on the line today the West's sweeping package plan for uniting Berlin, merging East and West Germany, and starting global disarmament. He urged the Soviet Union to accept it as the basis for a European settlement...
Though the College is predominantly residential, and proud of it, over 11 per cent of its students now live off-campus as "commuters." Thirty years ago when the stock market crashed, the percentage was up over 40, but then Harkness gave Harvard its Houses, President Conant laid heavy stress on "national distribution," and the non-resident segment began shrinking to its present minimum...
...sold out an extra-run issue of 100,000-was an ingenious application, by Tokyo Institute of Technology Professor Yasushi Hoshino, of an old sound-recording technique. Niagara's roar was magnetically and invisibly etched in the insert page's brown ink, exactly as sound tracks are laid on magnetic tape...
Blaming Wages. From Raymond Saulnier, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, came the sharpest opposition to the bill-he called it "untimely and unnecessary"-as well as backing for Blough's view. In the strongest terms yet used by an Administration economist, Saulnier laid the blame for inflation not on corporations but on "increases in money wages that outstrip improvements in productivity. I believe we have tended of late to depart from the historical relation between wage increases and productivity improvements. And if these cost increases cannot be passed on to the consumer in higher...