Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday, Senator Alben Barkley with his keynote speech and Senator Joseph T. Robinson with his speech as permanent chairman of the Democratic convention, came to lay their themes on the lap of their chief for editing and correction...
Chief feature of the Senate bill was that it reduced the undistributed profits tax to a size where it would not greatly harm corporations which needed to lay by reserves out of profits, would not unduly discourage the creation of surpluses as cushions against depression...
...considerable number of these options are actually exercised and result in authentic changes of ownership of dogs. The district attorney urges that these purchase options are a mere subterfuge and that the man who buys one of them for $2 merely intends, in truth and in fact, to lay a bet of that amount. Very possibly this is true...
...toward payment of debts and old bills, 7% for housing repairs, 6% for automobiles, 7% for clothing, the rest in a free & easy manner. Of the same opinion, merchants of every variety had flooded the mails with circulars, kept their stores wide open at night. Get-rich-quick promoters lay anxiously in wait for what Frank Brock of the New York Better Business Bureau described as "the biggest potential sucker list of all times...
...shops were slices of honeycomb full of honey" and when "the boys came from far places with cardboard suitcases." He describes the winters filled with memories of bad colds, of policemen with faces like blue meat, of "overcoatless men;" the brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child cried thinly and endlessly." But Poet Benét admits he cannot explain the city or its society to future cornerstone riflers, and to serious readers his apostrophe may sound a little hollow...