Word: layed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Largely through the work of the present incumbent, Dr. John R. Mott, the position of General Secretary of the Association has come to be regarded as "most potent lay position in the religious world." Born in Livingston Manor, N. Y., Dr. Mott spent his boyhood in Postville, Iowa. He and his father, a lumber dealer, were "converted" by a secretary from Des Moines when the younger Mott was 14 years old. He was graduated from Cornell University* in 1888 and the same year he went to Mount Hermon, Mass., attended the Bible study class of Dwight L. Moody, uneducated, forceful...
...Winnipeg, Fritz Kreisler cut his finger shaving. Some 3,000 waited in vain for his concert, while his fiddles lay still. Danger of blood-poisoning passed...
...became quickly silent; Dorando was swaying in his stride and his face was that of a man charging against some invisible monster who held his shoulders and would not let him move. His legs were red with running; they twisted under him suddenly like sticks of cinnamon and he lay crumpled in the dirt just beyond the bicycle track. A man named McAndrews ran out and helped him to his feet; Dorando staggered three steps and fell again; two men helped him up this time; the track was full of people and Hayes, who had passed Hefferon...
...charged the famous £140 carpet to The Gondoliers, thereby traditionally starting the passionate if intermittent quarrel between the gifted collaborators. Gilbert objected to the extravagance, and flew into a rage because Sullivan refused to join in the objection. But in those days of their affluence the trouble obviously lay deeper than...
...best known and most significant painter of U. S. portraits lay for many years in an unmarked grave in the old General Central Burying Ground in Boston Common. In 1897 the Paint and Clay Club attached a bronze tablet in the form of a palette...