Word: lay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examination of the present schedule of games, we find that a season ticket costs no less, or at least very little less than single fees paid at each game would cost; so that all the advantage of season tickets is lost. Rare is the man who cares to lay out $5.00 at one time for a season ticket, when even supposing he attends all the games, he knows it will cost him no more to pay for each game at the gate. The chances are, on the contrary, that a season ticket will prove considerably more expensive, inasmuch...
...wonted quiet tenor of her slumberous existence. Suddenly a strange outburst of sound caught her ear, and woke her up again. From the pineclad forests of Maine to the billowy praries of the boundless West; from the frozen confines of the region where the Bates Student pipes its lay to the faraway abode of the Kansas University Review, she heard a swelling chorus resounding in her praise. All her contemporaries were saying nice things about her. The Delaware College Review declared that the Advocate was full of interesting reading. The Virginia University Magazine affirmed that it almost wanted to send...
...decision of the overseers, though not wholly unexpected, is yet a most disappointing one to those who have been prominent in getting up the petition, and by the students as a body the news of the overseers' action will be received with regret. We have done, however, all that lay in our power to bring about the much-to-be-desired change in the patriarchal system of college government which has so long prevailed at Harvard. Nothing now remains for us to do but to fold our hands and leave this reform to be wrought out by the lapse...
Eighty-eight won the drop by a fraction of an inch, but did not hold it long, and at the end of two minutes the ribbon, was exactly in the middle. Both sides lay on the rope for the next minute, and each anchor was laying for the other in order to catch him in case he should start to heave. During the fifth minute, Balch took in rope, and by a succession of powerful heaves brought the ribbon one and a half inches over to his side, where it remained until time was called. The victorious team was carried...
...University to fill his buckets, locked him in. Masters of the field, they now began to feed the fire with barrels, stuffed with shavings and paper saturated with kerosene, cart wheels, filched from a neighboring wheel wright's shop, front gates, fence rails, and in fact anything they could lay their hands on. The fool-hardiness of some who poured on kerosene from tin cans, which the flames almost seemed to envelop was extraordinary; it is only a wonder that the bon-fire had not served as a funeral pile for these rash youths. Balch, the anchor...