Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President beamed. Charlie, he said meaningly, was "hooked," would not need a job for a long time to come. And it was evident that if Franklin Roosevelt was indifferent to what might pass last week in Congress, he still had a lively interest in the campaign which lay beyond Congress' closing...
...from eastern Missouri to Long Island. Tibicina septendecim is a toothless insect, does not eat plants but simply sucks at them. It makes no attempt to escape from sparrows, its greatest enemy. The female damages orchards and vineyards by using her sawtooth appendage to carve grooves in which to lay her eggs. When the larvae hatch from the eggs, they fall to the ground, dig in, attach themselves to a root at which they suck for 17 years. When the proper time arrives, they come out at dusk, climb a tree. In order to get out of the old shell...
...26th.--Lay too long for breakfast; so, up, and to the office all morning where I hear much talk of the Crimson's September Tercentenary issues, and very sore at heart I shall not be here to work and read the many fine articles which are promised even, perhaps, from President Roosevelt and Dr. Lowell...
...Journal is a series of blatantly emotional articles called "Why Should Mothers Die?" by Bacteriologist Paul de Kruif. Cried Kansas City's Dr. Buford Garvin Hamilton last week: "American obstetrics seems to be becoming a competitive practice to please American women in accordance with what they read in lay magazines...
Death, threatening the life of the A. M. A.'s President-Elect James Tate Mason, made last week's meeting the most emotional in the A. M. A.'s 89 years' existence. Dr. Mason, 54, lay critically ill in his Seattle hospital as result of a thrombosis. The thrombosis had compelled amputation of Dr. Mason's left leg (TIME, May 11) and last week threatened amputation of the other. No one knew better than Surgeon Mason how dire the consequences might be. Bravely he sent a "last message" to the medical assembly over which...