Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unimpressed were the President's Civil Service critics with his argument that the fault lay with Congress rather than with the White House, with his implication that he was powerless to get Congress to do his bidding. Wrote Pundit Arthur Krock of the New York Times...
...Arch, there was a flurry in the crowd behind Constable Dick's shoulder. Something shiny flashed through the air, landed under King Edward's charger. The horse took a few skittish steps, then straightened out. The King never flinched. Equerry Sir John dropped back. A shiny revolver lay on the pavement. Over the heads of an excited crowd appeared the rumpled features of George Andrew McMahon, being hustled away by four policemen towards a patrol van. Special Constable Dick had looked up just in time to see the revolver wavering in the herbalist's hand. Instinctively...
...more satisfied are most teachers, whose National Education Association has consistently deplored the absence of teachers on the NYA Advisory Board, now staffed with such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, Amelia Earhart and Owen D. Young. Bitter because the New Deal has rejected NEA's demands for a Federal annuity to assist U. S. schools lamed by Depression, NEA's Secretary Willard Givens cracked at NYA as follows: "While a few youngsters are being taught harmonica playing, fancy lariat throwing and boondoggling, some hundreds of thousands of less fortunate ones throughout the U. S. are being denied...
Manfully dentists last week strove to improve their status. Dr. Miner, their new president, who is both Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Medical Dentistry, told them: "Not until diagnosis becomes the foundation on which the whole structure of dentistry is built can it lay claim to be a learned profession or an important branch of the great art and science of healing." As tooth-menders, most dentists realize that they are little more than unrespected artisans working on the fringe of health. As preventers of dental disease, they run the risk of becoming doctors' handymen, in a class...
...slack lay entirely in the fact that the nation's banks now have some $3,000,000,000 in reserves over & above what they need to support their present business. That excess could support a credit expansion of at least $30,000,000,000. It is the threat of such credit inflation that gives bankers like Chase National's Chairman Winthrop Aldrich the jitters every time they think about it. And, through the mysteries of central banking, excess reserves are about to take another rise as a result of the payment of the Bonus, the Reserve Board estimating...