Word: layed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cook thinks Yale's success in the 'varsity boat race this year is rather doubtful. "Brer Fox, he lay...
There is no stage in which butterflies may not pass the winter, they can hibernate either as eggs as caterpillars, chrysalids, or in the winged condition. Butterflies do not lay caterpillars, as thought by some. Metamorphoses from egg to adult take place at least once a year; some species go through as many as eight generations in a year. Mimickry is not uncommon among butterflies. There is a species which is noxious in taste to birds; their form is mimicked in color by a second form, and this one is again mimicked by a third species. Other forms of mimicry...
...theme for the past few days has been the new base-ball league. The vote of the mass meeting which empowered Princeton's delegates in the matter had not a dissenting voice. Columbia was welcomed as a member, and it is the desire of all Princeton men that Yale lay aside her accustomed feeling of suspicion and stubbornness, and sympathize with the movement. It is the universal opinion that she will be compelled so to do, or be boycotted by the trio of colleges...
...feeling of sympathy for his fellow man, although in bondage, has at last induced the faculty to put into execution the long-dreamt of idea of laying board-walks throughout the college yard. Possibly this sympathetic thrill can be accounted for by accidents which may have befallen members of the faculty similar to the one which happened to a certain editor of the CRIMSON when, one dark and rainy night not long ago, he chanced to stumble into a fair-sized pond three feet deep in the very midst of the path. Be this as it may, the college authorities...
...perhaps superfluous to point out the effects of the Frence Revolution as an example of the influence of Franch on our literature - evidence enough of this will be found in the work of the so-called Lake Poets. But on the fact of that influence I would lay stress, and consequently on the sequent fact that much of the matter and of the form - allowing of course for intrinsic difference of language - of our lighter literature has come from Paris - for instance, the kind of short stories that seems to be the prevailing type of American writing...