Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next morning 'Nicholas Spicer' learned that two policemen were on the lookout for the man who struck Billy Patterson. . . . His distaste for legal proceedings caused him to lay the case before a friend at the hotel. . . . This gentleman engaged two newsboys to traverse the streets of the city, asking every person old or young, 'Who struck Billy Patterson?' The policemen soon retired, but the question was caught up by hundreds of lips, and the query soon found a place in the daily journals, whence it spread with electric rapidity through all parts of the Union...
...isolationists were said to have approved and which the State Department immediately endorsed. "Within the next few days," said Senator Byrnes, the State Department would open negotiations for barter trade with Great Britain, Holland, and Belgium, swapping raw materials such as U. S. surplus cotton (TIME, April 10) to lay in "emergency stocks" of strategic materials (rubber, tin) in which those nations hold the world monopoly...
...Sydney last week Australia's Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 59, contracted a chill in the damp autumn weather; two days later he lay dead of a heart attack. His death ended his administration at seven years, three months -just two weeks short of the record made by Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...
...consular career had taken him to most Near East trouble spots. Then they set fire to the building, and killed George Monck-Mason in the slow, brutal way in which Oriental mobs have for centuries disposed of those they hated; they knocked him down, and standing round as he lay writhing in the dust, stoned him until his body was a bloody pulp...
...linked with world change, stand most in need of continual revision, that I believe our colleges, Harvard among them, have been content with less than real accomplishment. For every potential specialist in art, undergraduate classes include many young men and women who are not there because they wish to lay the basis for a professional career in art, nor even purely for the sake of the intellectual discipline involved, but rather as persons whose taste in art, though they will never be artists themselves, will be of consequence in the creative expression of our time and the future. By "taste...