Word: lain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the noisome brown Gran Chaco, battling doormat of Bolivia and Paraguay, ominous silence has lain for more than a month. Paraguayan soldiers, backed against their Verdun, a hummock topped by French-built Fort Nanawa, have had nothing to do but scratch hard-biting Chaco lice. In far-off Geneva, where they could not see the smile on the face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep...
...American Hospital, hurried downstairs to where a group of reporters huddled in the half-light. He said: "The grandest lady of France and America died with a suffragist smile. There were no last words." Thus last week died Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, of bronchitis and heart disease, having lain ill since a paralytic stroke last...
...frequent question to Roman Catholic churchmen is: why so great a proportion of Catholics in prison populations? In last week's issue of The Commonweal, urbane Catholic weekly, was a reply by Father John P. McCaffrey, Roman Catholic chap lain at Sing Sing. Chief point: prison populations mirror the localities upon which they draw. Father McCaffrey demonstrates by a section in Massachusetts, as follows...
Turning Fox. Ousted from his film company, hounded by lawsuits, pop-eyed William Fox has lain low on his Long Island estate ever since the Senate Banking & Currency Committee tried unsuccessfully to put him on the witness stand to unsnarl his jumbled stock dealings (TIME, June 27, et seq) Not in his recent rôle of sued but as suer Mr. Fox made news last week when the first of his major suits against the makers and users of sound film reproduction equipment for alleged infringement of patents (U. S. rights to which Mr. Fox personally acquired from...
Newspapers rejoiced last week in a new and different murder story for their front pages. The.victim was a girl. Her remains had lain undiscovered in Minnesota, not just a few hours, but for many years. The number of years was what made the story, as a murder story, a newspaper hoax and a scientist's delight. Professor Albert Ernest Jenks of the University of Minnesota gave the story its first publication. Speaking before the National Academy of Science meeting at Ann Arbor last week, he set the number of years at some 200 centuries. That would make the Minnesota...