Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, often unfortunate in rubbing masculine Labor the wrong way, observed in Washington that "only words" lay between union and operators...
...great difference separates the new period from the one before the World War. Citizens of that pre-War world had no knowledge of what lay ahead of them, had no historical precedent for the tragedy toward which they were moving, and even the statesmen who tried to avert it had no conception of its terrible scope. On the evening of Aug. 3, 1914, when Great Britain pondered war, Sir Edward Grey stood at the window of the Foreign Office, watching the lamps being lit in the summer dusk, and said: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall...
...Trend" stories which will give the background of spot news about Harvard science so that it "means something" to the lay reader will appear soon through the efforts of the newly-formed Public Relations Committee of the Asociation of Harvard Scientists, the committee chairman, Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy announced...
This week the Clipper lay at her moorings at Southampton, England, ready for the return flight. Purpose of the trip, which may be the last before Pan-Am begins regular service to Europe this summer : to check technical facilities, including radio direction-finding equipment at Lisbon and Marseille...
...Perth Amboy, N. J., John Czerwiec, 67, took a last look into the coffin where his dead wife lay, collapsed and died...