Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With that unpleasant thought in mind, the Governors voted for a national conference to lay down a comprehensive, simplified tax program for local, State and Federal Governments. Most of the Governors forthwith boarded a special train to Washington, put their proposition to President Roosevelt at a White House luncheon (see p. 9). Maryland's unhappy Nice was rushed home in a New Jersey State Police ambulance for an emergency operation (rectal abscess...
Subnappers. At Brest, France last week the Leftist submarine C-2 still lay tied up in the harbor awaiting repairs that were started three weeks ago. Out of the darkness appeared eleven Spaniards, one Frenchman in civilian clothes. They clambered down the companionway with word that they bore special sealed orders from Valencia. The C-2's commander, José Luis Ferrando, met his guests formally in the companionway, suddenly found himself squinting down the muzzles of a dozen pistols. The visitors actually were renegade Leftist officers from another Valencia submarine, the C4, also up for repairs at Bordeaux...
Boston newspaper photographers climbed on ladders, lay on the floor and hung from the lights, in all effort to get original angles. The flash bulbs turned solemn Memorial into a scene resembling the opening session of a National Convention...
...education officials still refused to open schools. In Philadelphia, an 11-year-old sufferer was brought to a city hospital from Williamsport and in the ensuing scare, Philadelphia's mayor forbade any hospital to accommodate out-of-town cases. But the biggest infantile paralysis news of the week lay in two new artificial lungs, cheaper and simpler than the $1,000 to $2,450 big steel boxes...
...three weeks to repair & supply longboat and gig salvaged from the wreck. Twenty-two set out in the 22-ft. boat; eight went with Captain Tobias in his even smaller gig. Overcrowded from the start there was scant room for the severely rationed water and food. To the south lay cannibals of the Marshall group of islands; westward 1,500 miles was Guam. They sailed west again...