Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yacht yard. The yard looked mournful, too: several fishermen from Nantucket, old home of the whalers, were tied up at the quay making repairs before going out onto winter waters, while many a boat that he knew under clouds of white canvas he hardly recognized as they lay all bare of rigging, nestled together in cradles under a tin shed, as if in hibernation...
...basis of Article 5, Sec. 2 of the Student Council Constitution, which says: "It shall be the duty of the Council to give consideration to any proposal that undergraduates may lay before it--" the charge of Merwin K. Hart, '40 and Sidney Q. Curtiss, '40 against the Harvard Committee of the National Committee of Medical Bureau to aid Spanish Democracy, will be presented to the Student Council at its first meeting, which will probably be on Thursday, October 7th. If at that time the majority of the Council, a quorum being present, vote that the charges are worthy of investigation...
...Museum acquired Adoration oj the Child, painted about 1495 by Piero di Cosimo for Lorenzo de' Medici. Notable for its luxuriant and microscopic detail and for the figure of the Child asleep. Piero's own idea, that masterpiece was one of the few the Museum could lay its hands on that it considered worthy of hanging with such possessions as Filippo Lippi's Madonna & Child, François Clouet's Elizabeth of Valois. No less choice was the head of a Greek girl in Parian marble, 4th Century B.C., which the Museum snagged in June...
...lay: Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, after a stomach operation, in Skagen Jutland; Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 87, Japan's last surviving elder statesman, as a result of "a train ride too soon after luncheon." in Okitsu, Japan; Deaf-mute Teacher Helen Keller, after an abdominal operation, in Rochester, Minn.; Maryland's one-eyed Governor Harry Nice, after an emergency operation for removal of an abscess, in Baltimore...
...author's style is terse, to the point, easy to read. There are no wasted words. This is a dignified chronicle of a dignified event. Even the Harvard-phobia who starts at the first page will not lay down the book until the end is reached. A sense of the magnitude of what is being recorded grasps the reader comparable to that which grasped the watchers last year. Mr. Greene makes those days live again...