Word: layed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...figures of its registration which Cornell University has just published it appears that Cornell can lay good statistical claim this year to title as the most national university in the United States. Cornell has students from every last one of the states of the Union, one territory, and four dependencies. Since it so happens that Harvard lacks Arizona from its student membership this year, Cornell can go Harvard just this one better, even thought it is evident that this index of universality is by no means an adequate or even an important test of an institution's national character...
...long should a man sleep? The argument started at the dawn of creation and it is still debated. The ancients looked with scorn on the man who lay long abed, while Homer said, "It does not become a man of counsel to sleep the whole night." The University of Salerno in Roman days declared; "To sleep seven hours is enough for either a young man or an old one." In more modern times we have the famous dictum of Napoleon: four hours sleep for a man, five for a woman and six for a fool. Thomas Edison believes we shall...
...indication that the men who do good work in college are the men who show ability and win people's confidence in after life. If you want to be President of the United States or to make a mark for yourself in any field, now is the time to lay the foundation. -Wisconsin Daily Chronicle
...goes in it that the civilization of the world should be saved, there are a score who go in because they like the sound of imperialism, or because they hate another nation, or because they were drafted. Among those who go in for the finer motives and voluntarily lay down their lives for reasons that are the farthest removed from all material considerations, Americans, of "material" America, are not without their glory...
...educated man must strike fundamentals; he must lay hold of great issues he must take his stand definitely upon the large questions of the day. How many of us try to satisfy this aim by pondering a few minutes over admission to the Union or the Smoker question? What we need to do is to abstract time for the study of basic principles. The college man never realizes how much spare time he has. Any Law School man will verify that. Why not use some of this spare time to create an individual and constructive idealism? On this firm basis...