Word: lain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From her pinprick on the world's charts of New York Harbor, off which she has lain to warn the ships of the world of a guardian shoal, the Ambrose steamed southeastward?for 1? mile. Then down went her bebarnacled anchor-&-chain once more...
...African campaigns and of the War of 1870, was being considered as a candidate for beatification. The ecclesiastical tribunal which sat on his case ordered disinterment of his body. When the body was removed last week from its coffin in the crypt of Loigny Church, where it had lain since 1887, it was reported to be in a "miraculous" state of preservation?no rigor mortis, hair and skin "as natural as in life." General de Sonis Was beatified...
...calf or Nelly. He was simply anxious to preserve a new freedom he had found when the menagerie truck in which he, a $2,500 show lion, had been riding was wrecked in a road smash. While the wreck was being untangled, Wallace had trotted down the road and lain down, blinking at the Dorset sun, rolling now and then in the Dorset dust. When his keeper approached, over a hedge had leaped Wallace and brought up in puzzlement before Nelly's calf...
...correspondent for the United Press. Alone, he traveled by motor, horse and foot 300 miles from the railhead at Marrakesh to the scene of the ambush, sent the first direct word of the battle. At Meknes base hospital Lieut. Briard. wounded in the first skirmish, told how he had lain behind a desert bush and watched his wounded comrades being stabbed to death by Moors...
Died. General W. Bramwell Booth, 73, at his home at Hadley Wood, England, where he had lain ill since his ousting from Salvation Army leadership by Sister Evangeline Booth and others (TIME...