Word: layed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where the oldest U. S. cell block (1798) is still in use. Several Southern prisons use the disciplinary strap, but not Kentucky. Said the late Warden John Chilton, dean of U. S. wardens, who died six months ago: "If I used a strap on those hillbillies they would lay for me till their dying day. I'm a hillbilly myself, so I know...
...snapped M. Tardieu, the Government would not "pronounce 'laicisms'"? and suddenly he demanded a vote of confidence, staked his whole political future shrewdly on a word. The shrewdness lay in that he had neatly chosen an issue on which the Government could not fail to command the Catholic vote...
Instead. Robeson's returning recital was a modest repetition of spirituals he had sung before. As in 1925, critics complained that such a program tends to monotony, that Robeson's range is too limited to offset it. But the lay audience, including such famed white Negrophiles as Novelists Fannie Hurst and Carl Van Vechten, received him ecstatically, applauded tremendously after ''Water Boy,'' "I'm Goin' to Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers...
...case with most entrance difficulties, it again seems necessary to lay the blame at the door of the secondary schools. In preparing men for these examinations they focus their attention on the final test rather than on an actual foundation in the fundamentals of English. The most plausible solution that presents itself seems to be in offering an examination in the more basic aspects of the subject, thus demanding that the preparatory schools focus their attention on providing a substantial background; and leaving to the college the problem of providing the more advanced work. As it is at present...
...little early to talk about Yale, games, even to think about them. In fact the Vagabond was so pleasantly surprised with the news last evening that he lay awake all night listening to the four faced clock tick just over his bed in Memorial Tower. After this warning against undue premature excitement there is no reason for not going now into a few details...