Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coasts of China lay last week virtually every Japanese aircraft carrier, sending shoals of bombers off their decks daily. Chinese intercepter fighters and anti-aircraft batteries did magnificent work at the main centres of attack, such as Nanking and Shanghai, but little or nothing could be done against Japan's methodical daily bombing of China's necessarily exposed railway lines, the arteries of her troops and supplies. The new Hankow-Canton railway was so heavily bombed that neutrals doubted if it was still functioning this week, agreed that the line from Nanking which starts from Pukow across...
...rights, invited several hundred Labor sympathizers from Mexico City to attend. Boss Cedillo's men opened fire on the gathering from hotel windows, cafe doors. Throwing up street barricades, the two groups potshot at each other for eight hours, were stopped by the arrival of Federal troops. Four lay dead, several wounded...
...Kingdom of God, the General Convention, whose deliberations were to last a fortnight, took its time getting down to business. Bishops and their wives dressed up in their considerable best to dine formally at the Netherland Plaza. Members of the General Convention's lower legislative house, clerical and lay deputies, gazed appreciatively at such convention exhibits as the handsome trailer which is host Bishop Hobson's Cathedral (TIME, April 19), the posters and photographs of the zealous, two-year-old Church Society for College Work, the "barracks" of the hardworking, uniformed Church Army which resembles the Salvation Army...
...swear I am hungry for something to read every time I lay down Stevenson...
That few of the undergraduates knew Mr. Perkins by sight is a tribute to his modesty and to the unobtrusive efficiency of the Corporation, for officers of the University testify that his greatest interest as Fellow lay in the lot of the students. He was the constant member of a changing Corporation which has in the past quarter century enormously built up the endowment of Harvard and has increased her name and friends. Truly the University will do well so long as she can attract men of the type of Mr. Perkins, and alike for his friendship...