Word: layed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huskers' hands worked like shuttles in two motions?up and down. They tore the ears off the stalks, twisting the instruments on their gloves so as to lay bare the smooth corn kernels. With their free hands they took hold of the bare ears, twisted and snapped off the rest of the husks, threw the ears into the wagons...
...Significance, to U. S. observers, of the election lay in the firmly entrenched position of the National Revolutionary Party, the party of ex-President Calles, "provisional" President-elect Ortiz Rubio, suave engineer. Prophets foresaw no major change in Mexican-U. S. official relations for at least four years, nine months, 23 days...
...Umberto of Italy riding in a Brussels street at the moment when an anti-Fascist took a shot at him (TIME, Nov. 4). You heard the shot, saw the crowd swerve to pounce on the assassin. You saw the young Prince, his face tight as a drum, proceed to lay a wreath on a monument as though nothing had happened...
Last week three attempts were made to lay down empirical formulas for the conduct of U. S. school children, pedagogs, undergraduates...
...Paulo, Brazil, a street car crashed headlong into a circus elephant. The front of the car was smashed, the elephant lay unconscious. For two hours he held up traffic, while his mate stood by. trumpeted, allowed no one to approach...