Word: lain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems only logical and reasonable to expect that this principle once adopted in undergraduate work, must ultimately be extended into graduate work, and when it is, a long standing disability will be removed under which men have lain whose interests are literary rather than phililogical. The plan of work for the Doctorate in English at Harvard, as at present constituted, appears to rest on two fallacies. One is the assumption that a knowledge of Germanic Philology is an essential prerequisite to an understanding of English Literature, combined with the conviction that Anglo-Saxon has a direct connection with English Literature...
DARK OF THE MOON-Sara Teas-dale-Macmillan ($1.50). The sea, it is said, is the great civilizer. Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernst B. Filsinger) of St. Louis, Mo., has walked and lain long beside it, learning over and over the sea's "immemorial yearning" until it has become her own. Rest from restless beauty is her desire. Her best poems are fragile meshes of silence and loneliness, written on beaches, cliffs and sea-hills, at the days rare moments and the year's empty seasons. Then, she says, I shall gather myself into myself again...
...digging diligently with a broken knife in the garbage pile, examining every orange rind and scrap of paper, until he found a tiny bit of blackened bandage. Twentyfour hours after this find, a tiny silver tube was found in the litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap by use of a mineralogist's divining instrument for radioactive substances. During the five-day hunt, a hog whose...
...Scotland, ordered and superintended a thorough cleaning preparatory to complete redecoration of this so-called "secret bed chamber." One good job done, Queen Mary passed to another locked bedroom door. Impassive but expectant the royal attendants waited. Would Her Majesty order that room disturbed? On the bureau had lain undisturbed for more than three decades a little pile of silver and copper coins. They had been left there carelessly by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, before he contracted influenza and died at Sandringham (1892). He, the eldest son of Edward and Alexandra (then Prince and Princess...
...Flyer Bettis could not keep Flyers Smith and Williams in view. There they were. There they weren't. He started lifting his plane out of those mountains. It was just about the place that Charlie Ames, the air mail pilot, had pitched into a hogsback last year and lain dead for 10 days before they found him, . . . Lieutenant Bettis crashed...