Word: lain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medical frost that had long lain upon New Haven, Conn, was thawed out last week. The Yale School of Medicine, opened in 1813, and the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, dating from 1826, decided to get together in a formal medical center. Also joining the combine will be Yale's School of Nursing, its Psychiatric Institute, Department of Public Health and its famed Child Study Center (TIME...
...flowers, trudged through rain and mud to place wreaths on his tomb. Finally they gathered in the great Ceremonial Hall, and as each one rose to congratulate the university, the forbidden name seemed to pop up, again and again and again. At the end of the ceremony, Rector Pedro Lain Entralgo of the University of Madrid launched into an impassioned eulogy of "one of the Spanish masters who will live forever, long after many generations have died...
...month hence, Ataturk's body, which has lain in a "temporary" resting place these past 15 years, will be borne with ceremonial pomp to a new mausoleum on Ankara's highest hill. The mausoleum, reached by 33 marble steps 132 feet wide, will probably be the biggest of its kind, until Evita Peron's or the proposed Soviet pantheon tops it. For three days, Turkey's 21 million citizens will do him honor...
...Capitol Rotunda. On the day of the funeral, a uniformed attendant wheeled Martha Taft into the rotunda of the Capitol, where for a day her husband's body, in a closed casket, had lain in state, visited by thousands of people.* There the dignitaries gathered: President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, members of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, Taft's old friend, Douglas MacArthur. The muffled brass of the U.S. Marine Band echoed through the corridors, and Senator John Bricker spoke the eulogy. Taft, who had always gone armed with a sense of humor, would have appreciated...
...Only twelve others have lain in state in the Capitol rotunda: Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, John A. Logan, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Admiral George Dewey, the Unknown Soldier of World War I, Warren G. Harding, General John J. Pershing, and Robert Taft's father...