Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this way. Facts are blocks, and with them the comprehending scholar can lay out a number of designs. On the other hand, the tutored man has the blocks; but he knows only one design. He fails when called upon to lay out any other...
...task of refusing Mayor Lyons' request was made considerably more difficult by the role which that worthy chose to assume--that of requesting a contribution, rather than demanding a tax provision. This has put Harvard somewhat on the defensive, and may lay it open in the future to accusations of "failing" the city. Of course, Cambridge's financial condition may indeed be due to decreased tax income. So says the Mayor. But perhaps it is more attributable to an often extremely uneconomical city government. In either case, Harvard cannot be expected to ameliorate the deficit unless it wishes to function...
...bought carriage after carriage for him . . . but . . . he just couldn't sit up. [Father Greenfield demonstrated how the child's head flopped to & fro on its neck.] I bought babies' toys for him but when I held them out he couldn't grasp them. He lay there like a-like a lump of pudding." Jerry grew large rapidly, too rapidly. He never learned to walk alone, could only lurch, spin and sprawl. Almost nothing coordinated. He had to be helped with the simplest functions. When he was put in institutions, he pined for his family...
Last week frightened steelmen could not help recalling the story of a week last autumn. When steelmen returned jauntily from 1938 Labor Day weekends, they were confident that no more dreary months of 25% and 30% operations lay ahead-October would start the 1939 auto model year off with a bang. Soon all steel-peddling haunts buzzed with reports that auto production schedules called for 1,000.000 1939 cars by year's end. At a ton of steel per car, Detroit would have to buy 1,000,000 tons. Buick had just bought 35,000 tons. Ford was shopping...
...below what steelmen quickly realized had been the price, but was the price no more. There started a week's orgy of price cutting. Steel price quotations fell as rapidly as stock quotations on a Hitler-speech day. The independents (staying in the black) offered to lay steel down in Detroit for $8 a ton less than the U. S. Steel Corporation, and the U. S. Steel Corporation (going into the red) met the cut. Little Steel's Girdler and Big Steel's Stettinius traded punches till both were sorry...