Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrangements for a vast extension of credits by the United States to Brazil, and the latter's agreement to free its foreign exchange for commercial transactions. Here is a country with a large German population, loaded down with Nazi propaganda, which decided that the best hope for economic improvement lay in the establishment of a free exchange market. It means that Germany which has had a steadily growing Brazilian trade through her barter arrangements and use of restricted foreign exchange, will find Brazilian market's open to other countries, especially to the United States...
...main complaint we have against Harvard is that they don't help us to find work during the summer. If they're going to lay us off for three long summer months, they either ought to pay us more or find us summer jobs. Fourteen dollars a week doesn't leave us much to save for the college vacation...
...advantage of my system lies in that when I am off my game, I can lay back at the base line and just return the shots. When a player like Vines or Budge loses his stride for a day or so, there is nothing...
...dawdling, he never did get a degree. In 1936 he managed to get admitted to the New Jersey bar. Last fortnight, events in the politically throttled State of New Jersey conspired to place Frank Hague Jr., 34, on that state's highest bench (Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed (TIME, Feb. 27); 2) a county judge resigned his $15,000-a-year job to become counsel in the bank's liquidation...
...remind me of the opponents of the rail-roads in the 1830's: they too thought that this new invention was nothing but a curse, an evil contrived by the devil himself. They feared that the cows would give sour milk, that the hens would either not lay or else lay hard-boiled eggs. The same attitude prevailed when street-cars and trolleys came into widespread...