Word: layed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...real strength of the team lay in the halfback line and particularly in the centrehalf. Haverford was below standard in every department save that of goal keeper...
...real test of the Harvard-Yale game lay in the centre of the line, and the Crimson trio were outweighed and outeharged, and there is the story. Mr. Jones has builded well at New Haven, but he is likely to meet a harder test in his final games next year than fell to his lot this...
...right eye appalling those on his left" is amusing. The appreciation of Mr. Jones and "Till Eulenspiegel" seems competent and sincere. What is more, it is readable. It describes the rich settings and costumes of the recent opera with a color and a freshness of epithet that hold the lay reader. The description of Zuloaga's "Portrait of a Dancing Girl" is rather less successful. Though a faithful picture, it lacks the vigor and life which Mr. Larkin has breathed into his portrayal of "Till Eulenspiegel." "Mr. Sunday on College Men," we have, written in newspaper style, an interview with...
...upon us. None of them went lightly away: they were not looking for romance or for experience: they had no illusions about war. With sober thoughtfulness they faced the fact of a ruthless tyrant in Europe who threatened death to great living principles, and they decided that their duty lay with the Battery in France. We are staggered to think that they are dead...
...need of such a tremendous sacrifice. All three were men of conspicuous ability, they were trained and ready to take their place in the world's life-two of them had definitely consecrated themselves to the high service of the Christian ministry-when suddenly they were called upon to lay aside their task of battling for righteousness either in France or here, where they were so badly needed. That men of such unusual promise and of such sterling worth should need to be sacrificed is baffling in the extreme...