Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Later expert Pressman Jim Gauntlet was called in consultation from Seattle. Cried Jim Gauntlet when he spied the News-Herald press: ''Good God! I thought I had seen the last of that thing 25 years ago!" Most unique publishing difficulty under gone by the fledgling News-Herald lay in the fact that while its editorial, business, advertising and circulation departments worked on boxes and kitchen tables in one building, its composing room was a block away and its faithful rheumatic old press and mailing room were three miles outside the city. Founding News-Herald staff members carried copy...
Bill Gray made his return to the Crimson lineup today for a short scrimmage session after a three day lay-up at Stillman Infirmary. Though in need of practice and still a little weak from his illness, Gray will be at his usual center position in the starting quintet tomorrow. Other starters with him will be McGowan and Lowman at the forward positions and Lupien and Struck playing at the guard posts...
Written two days before in his little study aboard the Indianapolis, his address bore in its plush use of adjectives the inevitable mark of having been composed under the Southern Cross. On the desks of the assembled Congressmen and Justices lay copies of it neatly mimeographed in Portuguese. As President Roosevelt sonorously began, some of his hearers leaned forward attentively to stretch their knowledge of English, others followed with the text, sentence by sentence, with their fingers so as to applaud in the right places...
...Thanksgiving Day turkey soared to 75? per lb:, 30? above normal. Cities like Nome, Fairbanks and Ketchikan, which lay in a winter's stores in advance, were unworried. But Cordova was rationing condensed milk, six cans to a customer...
...able aide, Sam Bischoff. They owned the picture rights to the play. Warners had backed the Manhattan production. But what to do with Oiwin? The cinema presented untold possibilities for expanding his talent as a poet and his powers to divine the speed of horses. Yet there lay danger. The slightest alteration might impair Oiwin's magic, hilariously tested at so many box offices...