Word: lay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...motorcycle squad of the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps which left Cambridge on Saturday on a practice hike had a most successful trip of over 120 miles. The route chosen lay into New Hampshire beyond Hampden and almost to Dover. The detachment, consisting of six motorcycles accompanied by two automobiles, camped in the open Saturday night, and prepared its own meals...
...markets. Gold was worth 198 in green-backs on the day the law passed. The next day it went to 208; the next day to 230, and by the end of the month 250. Prices fluctuated wildly. On July 2, without debate, the Congress repealed the act! The trouble lay deeper than the evil designs of parasitic gamblers. Nobody is speculating in greenbacks today...
...present critical and unsatisfactory position in which many men in the University find themselves, it has seemed to me a useful as it is a patriotic duty to lay before such of them as are interested certain information, which I believe is not generally known at Harvard, which may enable them more intelligently to solve the problem of becoming immediately useful to the nation in its deliberately-formed determination to dispute and defeat, by force of arms, the pretensions of autocratic and irresponsible power...
...their section of the country. Those who do not succeed, and all other men over 20 years old and physically fit, are strongly urged to enroll in the Harvard Corps; in the belief that, although to do so will not lead to a commission in three months, it will lay a foundation, theoretical and practical, that will fit for one in no long time thereafter." "A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...
...officials of the city and the University, were preceded by the Regiment Band, the first battalion of the R. O. T. C., and the colors of the United States, France and the University. The two remaining battalions of the Corps bringing up the rear. The line of march lay along Federal and Milk streets to Postoffice square, thence along Congress, State, Washington and School streets, to the City Hall, where the parade was review by Mayor Curley, and from there along Beacon street to the State House, where Governor McCall reviewed the men. Turning down Dartmouth street the Corps marched...