Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reynolds concluded his speech with the statement that "there is no need to lay down a uniform policy for all industries. It is the objective which is important, not the method...
...remember well (though I was only a little tyke at the time) his last words as he left. "I hope you croak," he cooed broken-heartedly, "and I hope it's me as does it." And then for all these years he's never come back. And Grandma lay there on the bed, snarling so patiently, biting me, biting the doctor, even biting the bedposts for practice. I did so want for Grandpa to come home...
...inches deep in the lake gravel floor was found the buried skeleton of an infant. The bones were very immature. Beside the skeleton lay a sharp bone 'dagger.' At this level also were found some very small projectile points, possibly dart heads and knives, scrapers and bone awls. . . . There can be no question that these people preceded by several thousand years the earliest Basket Makers...
...disputes with capital, and finally the farcical "hearing" of the National Labor Relations Board, which has earned the name of being a C. I. O. affiliate, have all added to the spirit of unrest which walks abroad in the land and no move whatever has been taken to lay that spirit...
...others told them. The C. L. I. D.'s Executive Secretary Spofford told reporters that the General Convention had stalled a Cincinnati drugstore strike: "The picket line was effective until this convention arrived, but the girls tell me the church people go right through, particularly the clergy. Lay people see a bishop or a clergyman go in, think it's all right and follow...