Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this list of notables are Professors Munn, Sanders and Wild, and also Doctors Friedrich, Dunn and Nash. All of the lecturers will emphasize the extremely and practical useful role that the Christian Church can play in leading this chaotic world back to some degree of sanity, and they will lay particular stress on the present-day values of Christ's teachings...
Cheyenne in 25 hr. 25 min. hard driving. En route in Omaha, when an interviewer asked Senator O'Mahoney if he were hurrying home to lay the groundwork for the President's visit, Mrs. O'Mahoney answered for her husband: "Perhaps 'allay' is the better word." They arrived a day ahead of the Presidential special. Before the train reached Cheyenne, it stopped long enough for Cheyenne papers to be put aboard. Front-page headlines told about a testimonial banquet which Cheyenne Democrats had "only yesterday" decided to give Senator O'Mahoney. When the train...
...expect trouble. When the convicts, taking Warden Larkin and the guards with them, reached the prison yard, the captive guards put up a fight. Convict knives flashed. From the watch towers ten or twelve rifle bullets whistled into the melee. When it ended, one guard and one convict lay dead, six others lay unconscious in the yard. Another convict soon died of his wounds, and last week, after six blood transfusions, Warden Larkin died of his infected stab wounds. As the five surviving convicts were being indicted for murder other big prisons had their own troubles...
...James Joyce succeeded in crowding pre-War Dublin piecemeal through the eye of a verbal needle, he was hailed as the largest literary giant Ireland had ever produced. Seeing a giant, however, is not necessarily believing in him: and Ulysses' gigantic size seemed, to some critics and many lay readers, to conceal a wizened point of view. Readers who are cajoled into the belief that all is big in Brobdignag will find Giant Joyce's Collected Poems an eye opener. For not only are his poems measly in number (50), they seem small potatoes-and with few eyes...
...long heavy with the smell of dung heaps, peat bogs and the personal reek of an ill-kempt and poverty-ridden citizenry, a new and more awful odor arose. Sulphurous, acrid, "like the smell of foul water in a sewer," it came from the almost-ripened potato plants, lay so thick that in some places it was visible as a whitish cloud above them. Where it appeared, leaves turned first purplish-brown, then black; stems withered, so that they broke at the touch, oozing a pus-colored liquid; the potatoes, when dug, were soggy and black with putrescence, rank-smelling...