Word: layed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Trusting that you will lay this communication before the members of your company, and that before long I shall have the pleasure of aiding you to enjoy one of the greatest advantages of the nineteenth century...
...whatever quality it may be due, whether to common-sense, or lack of deference, or indolence, we no longer find the lover addressing his mistress in metaphors, the far-fetchedness of which would put to shame the worst of college puns, nor does he, at the critical moment, lay an exposition of his feelings before the lady, marked by all the elaborateness and ingenuity of a law-argument. The remarks of these chivalric knights on such occasions must have had an effect similar to that produced by a joke when told in ten times as many words as are necessary...
Many of the legislators of the country have been lately indulging in the most absurd theories of finance. Many have shown by their opinions, written and spoken, the most incredible ignorance of Political Economy. Some will lay this at the door of our republican institutions, and say that it is because in this country ignorant men can be elected to office. But the blame is not to be shifted so easily; the fault lies rather in the schools, which have neglected a most important branch of study. Many of those who show such utter incapacity to deal with questions...
...propose that Harvard and Yale Colleges lay aside all their ordinary forms of emulation at baseball, foot-ball, athletic games, and boating, and concentrate all their rivalry on a desperate race to the North Pole. We use race in a broad sense, to express an emulous strife towards a distant goal which it may take years to reach, but the attainment of which will bring great glory, after a struggle in which the contestants will have the world for spectators...
...will wonder at its endurance. Recent graduates will remember its signs of undoubted antiquity, and will laugh when they think of the disasters that it has caused passers-by; and I, - I shall cherish the recollection of its manifold virtues, and shall hold sacred the spot where it lay...