Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently I am teaching his hens how to lay more eggs, promoting and installing a "quick-freezing" plant, making myself generally useful around the plantation and its office, and attempting to design a refinement for his alfalfa dehydrator. Twelve to 15 hours a day. seven days a week, each packed to the utmost with interesting activity...
...exhibit has the double purpose of explaining through models, drawings and photographs modern architecture to the lay public, and presenting to the profession a "basic suggestion" for training architects in this new field, according to Walter F. Bogner, associate professor of architecture, who supervised the display. As yet there is no generally accepted plan for the teaching of architectural design from the modern point of view, he said...
...exhibition it is brought out how many phases there are to architecture, and good many of which were completely overlooked during the epoch of 'art for art's sake.' The lay person has good opportunity to see how the social influences on building reflect themselves in architectural design, and how architectural forms are in part governed by the underlying structure...
Ignoring this argument and the obvious fact that if an issue becomes sticky and causes a loss to Union Securities Corp. the loss will inevitably be passed on to its investment trust backers, Tri-Continental and Selected Industries last week preferred to lay their new venture to two lesser reasons: 1) they have large chunks of capital they are eager to use; 2) since banks were divorced from underwriting, and death or depression has slashed the ranks of underwriters, there is an acknowledged lack of underwriting capital...
...pleasures me, at end of day, To hear Boake Carter's baleful lay, The lullaby of world decay...