Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Take a piece of toast hot from the toaster tomorrow morning and lay it on a cold plate. When you pick it up you will note the plate is beaded with drops of moisture. And it won't be saliva. . . . The air the musician takes into his lungs is not saturated with saliva when he blows it into his horn, it is warmed in the lungs so that its natural moisture is more easily condensed when it passes into the cooler metal coils of the horn, and this natural moisture of the air (water) is what is precipitated within...
...getting inside, ripped gaping holes in side and deck. The other probably decided the battle. It pocked Spee's control tower fair and square. Lights went out. Telephones went dead. The central fire control went out of whack. Some of Spee's best plotters, gunnery officers, observers lay dead or wounded. From then on, orders had to go from less skilled men in secondary control stations. Speaking tubes, portable lights, messages by hand had to be resorted...
...Doell went to the back of the house, entered the master bedroom. On a three-quarter-size bed, on top of the covers, lay the man he had come to see: Dr. Walter Engelberg, 42, secretary of the Consulate. Dr. Engelberg was dressed in an old-fashioned white nightgown, his hands folded peacefully across his chest, the fingers extended. His head had been smashed by three blows. Obliterated were two sabre scars, marks of duels. He had been dead 24 hours...
...Lay directors of the plan include: Economist Alvah Eugene Staley of Tufts Col lege; Manager Daniel Bloomfield of the Boston Chamber of Commerce Retail Trade board; Secretary J. Arthur Moriarty of the Boston Typographical Union; New England Wage & Hour Administrator Thomas H. Eliot. Medical directors (headed by Dr. Cabot) do not belong to Health Service, but are banded into a brother corporation called Medical and Surgical Associates. This group will ex amine and appoint about 100 doctors to serve subscribers; Health Service, Inc. will pay them...
...unfortunate but excusable, considering the exacting requirements necessary for such a course. But subsequent snags have not been so pardonable. The worst instance has been the delay of six whole weeks in actual fight instruction that occurred while the list of chosen men, sent to Washington for approval, lay buried in the offices...