Word: lay
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...Putnam made an enormous contribution, but he didn't lay out any goals or direction for the future,' Thompson says...
...genius of Charles William Eliot lay in his recognition of the fact that a university does not remain great by standing still. Eliot embraced change, reform and experimentation. Against significant opposition from faculty, overseers and alumni, he transformed Harvard from a small, northeastern college into a national university by courageously adding and expanding graduate schools, enlarging the student body, recruiting faculty, broadening course offerings and liberating students from a strict set of course requirements. As Richard Norton Smith explains in his book, The Harvard Century, "For those in search of a pattern, there was [Eliot's] bold assertion that...
4.The MGH line: No, we're not talkingMass General Hospital here. Then again, none ofMessrs. Steve Martins, Cory Gustfson and TommyHolmes could lay claim to the title of "MostGenerally Healthy" either. Each of them has beengrounded at one point during the last 16 monthsdue to the aliment or another...
Scuffing dry leaves along brick pavements, in our saddle shoes or loafers, we never passed huge, funny-angled buildings. Around us lay a quaint and quiet village of woodframehomes--many elegantly gracious on tree-shadedlawns. Peaceful--except that, somewhere else, awar was going...
What really lay behind the complaints of Montgomery and Brooke was their belief that Britain was the senior partner in the Alliance and ought by rights to command its armies, even though American troops soon outnumbered their own. Britain's generals longed to preserve the waning strength of the Empire and postpone America's rise to dominance. But by the end of the war, the U.S. had 61 combat divisions -- more than 1 million men -- in Europe; the British, who had been fighting for five years and exhausted their reserves, never had more than...