Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sent to train with a field hospital unit at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N. Y., he marveled at the amiability of officers who let him bring his dog along, called each other by first names, lay on the grass with the rank & file. In the German Army the whole lot of them would have been either court-martialed or stood before a firing squad. But, notes Private Bemelmans gratefully, "they let me speak German, tell me that Germany is beautiful, and don't say a word that I have a stack of German books and many German ideas...
...magazine called Evolution. He solicited and published sound, straightforward articles from reputable scientists, avoided the wilder forms of abuse but exposed and excoriated antiscientific pressure wherever he found it. In 1932 he found the struggle to keep Evolution going too difficult, decided to stop publication for a while and lay the foundations for revival by a campaign of vigorous field work. His three daughters and two sons, although sympathizing and helping, were inclined to laugh at his "pipe dream." But Katterfeld persisted...
Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes does not like to delegate authority. To his desk the jury's award went for confirmation, and on his desk it lay for a full five weeks while newshawks waited patiently and 310 artists, many of them nationally prominent, nervously bit their nails. Fortnight ago somebody jogged Secretary Ickes' elbow and the jury's award was approved without comment. The mural contract, a $5,500 job to be completed within a year, went to Manhattan-born Muralist Louis Bouch...
Between Golfer Guldah's two little putts lay two stories. One was the story of what was in many ways the most dramatic U. S. Open Golf Championship ever played. The other was the story of one of the most extraordinary golfers in the game's history...
...come to be regarded by the film colony as quiet, conventional good taste. With a reliable force of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company detectives on guard to see that there was no repetition of the mob scenes at Rudolph Valentino's obsequies in 1926, the body of Miss Harlow lay on a couch in the Tennyson Room of Pierce Brothers Mortuary, Hollywood's largest. A portrait of the author of In Memoriam and a volume of his verse were arranged, as usual, nearby. In a "very beautiful but not overly expensive casket" purchased by the late star...