Word: lay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beginning of this year, that the society would not get through next year, paying rent, unless it were made so successful this year as to leave a net surplus of stock, and thus avoid the embarrassment and loss resulting from a surplus stock encumbered with debts. Their choice lay, therefore, between making this year merely a repletion of last year, and consequently, seeing the society in danger of dying at the beginning of next year, (and the society has been in such danger at the beginning of every year) or making a bold push this year, running risks, offering superior...
...result has been rather startling in its nature. Among the many happenings which this much-gifted prophet foretells for us, one at least we modestly assert will prove incorrect. Others, it is very probable, may be no more correct than this, but of those we do not speak, we lay no claims to the mysterious art of the seer...
...print from the Collegian a list of such American colleges as can lay some claim to a respectable antiquity. Many of the institutions in this list can lay claim to very little else, having been far outstripped by their younger rivals in the race for influence and prosperity...
...actual introduction to him, so that my imagination had time to picture him in all manner of portentous guises. The gentleman to whom I refer was an undergraduate, and at that period a sophomore. He was commonly spoken of as "Bill Blaikie," and his claim to my reverence lay in the fact that he was the typical strong man of the college. I doubt whether I should have had the perseverance to wriggle my way through the examinations for admission had I not been constantly stimulated by the reflection that Bill Blaikie was (to my mind) the central fact...
...borrow the following extract, which seems to be particularly pertinent at this time of the year, when the long series of class and society dinners is about to be inaugurated. "And no account of the social life of a Harvard undergraduate can be complete which fails to lay due stress upon that most enjoyable of all customs, the Harvard dinner. It is with surprise that the senior looks upon the picture in whose frame are carefully stuck the menus of the many dinners at which he has been present during his four year's course: he can hardly conceive...