Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observant Reader Semple is quite right, but even if it worked it would remain a useless egg beater. Only Paul Bunyan could use an egg beater five feet high, only Paul Bunyan's chickens could lay eggs big enough for it to beat...
Well aware that this about-face would strew some wigs on the green, The Commonweal's editors assured their readers that they did not favor the Loyalist cause, which, they said, has ''permitted the murder of priests, nuns and lay people" and has allied itself with Soviet Russia. But they denounced Spanish Rightists for: 1) bombing defenseless civilians in spite of "protests from the Holy Father," 2) uttering "totalitarian views very similar to those which have been condemned by the Church in other countries," 3) allying themselves with the Fascist and Nazi nations. The Commonweal urged Catholics...
...cast. In his official address as retiring moderator, he predicted a new revolt in Protestantism, back to primitive Christianity. It will include, said he, "a revolt against a few socialistic or capitalistic delegates, at national church conclaves, passing resolutions pretending to bind the entire membership." But the pearls lay where they fell. The convention proceeded to do just what Moderator Babson had been inveighing against: It adopted a resolution* condemning sale of war materials to Japan, and one asking the Government to respect conscientious objectors in time of war, adjourned impenitent...
Natives of the northern mountains of India believe that cholera is a six-handed demon with no feet. Therefore it cannot leave its habitat in India's lowlands until some traveling hillsman comes along, upon whom it can lay its many clutches. Actually the cause of cholera is a microbe shaped like a comma, which enters the body only through the mouth, infests the digestive tract, irritates the bowels to such extent that they extract and eject quarts of fluid from the body. A victim of cholera may die-shriveled and cold from dehydration, uremia and toxemia-within four...
Meanwhile, many another commencement speaker, aware that for some 500,000 of this year's graduates there are no jobs, drew a dismal picture of the world. Said New York University's Class Orator Paul H. Kahan: "The boys are prepared to lay down their caps and gowns and accept the pick and shovel of the WPA, if necessary. . . ." At all this Scripps-Howard Columnist Hugh S. Johnson stormed: "The present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore...