Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the new industry of acidizing oil and gas wells for increased production proved TIME-worthy, is indeed gratifying [TIME, July 12]. Although the article differed from the major facts about as a daguerrotype does from television, your lay readers probably were interested in an industry that was merely a gleam in a chemist's eye five years ago and now grosses $5,000,000 a year. But, it must have been amusing to the oil fraternity, which is thoroughly familiar with acidizing as it is practiced today, and as portrayed in a bibliography of 114 published articles...
Many a politician in Washington, including some of Franklin Roosevelt's loyal friends, privately expressed themselves as more than content at his defeat. It would, they thought, make him examine his plans more carefully, lay out his legislative programs with more caution and most important, might prevent him from deciding lightly to run for a third term-a move which, successful or not, could hardly fail to cause a furor as perilous as that over the Court Bill. ¶ Much water has flowed under Brooklyn Bridge since that day five years ago when James J. Walker threw...
...Lythgoe was hit by what she thought was Hiram Dempsey's fist. Jailed for assault & battery, Hiram Dempsey next day proudly exhibited a telegram from his famed son, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "Congratulations to the new champ stop consider matching you with Joe Louis. -. ." Ill lay: Onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, of a slight cerebral thrombosis, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Chairman Aiming S. Prall of the Federal Communications Commission, of an ailment his son refused to name, in Boothbay Harbor, Me.; U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, after a severe chill, in London...
...himself and his willingness to submit himself to some new authority. We need a new dynamic supernational Christianity." Theologian Emil Brunner of the University of Zurich pontificated: "That which is distinctively Christian cannot be expressed in systems and programs. . . . The Christian Church has no right to try to lay down a social program...
...prisoners. Instead of killing Smith the Indians adopted him into their tribe, took him 300 miles into the Ohio wilderness. In the five years that elapsed before he made his escape he acquired an unbeatable knowledge of Indian ways, a lasting hatred for the arms and liquor traffic that lay at the root of the bloody feud between Indians and whites...