Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advent of "moon mining" by no means signaled the end of submarine mining, and Nazi death-layers above and below the surface were believed to be collaborating, laying mines of several types, from little (200-lb.) but potent "footballs," of which a big seaplane might be able to carry 40 or 50, up to one-ton monsters. As Britain mobilized an even greater trawler fleet and called for hundreds of volunteers from North Sea fishing ports, down went one ship after another, great and small, trawler and liner, nationality regardless. The 11,930-ton Japanese luxury steamer Terukuni Maru went...
...inquire into last fortnight's sinking, by a British defense mine in Singapore harbor, of the British liner Sirdhana, with loss of eleven lives (TIME, Nov. 27). The commander of a British battery guarding the harbor testified that he saw the ship heading straight where he knew lay a mine field. Did he do anything to warn the ship? No, he replied, he had no authority to do that. But he telephoned to his fire commander and reported the situation. Did the fire commander do anything to warn the Sirdhana? No, he had first to get an order from...
...Hungary Transylvania, which Rumania took at the end of World War I-Hungary would refuse to play ball. "It is up to Rumania to accept the ideas of modern times and thus cooperate in forming a new order on the Danube," threatened the Foreign Minister. "Otherwise history will lay its hands...
Before the Government could ferret out the Moslem sit-downers and enforce a curfew, six Moslems and five Hindus lay dead, 23 were injured. Once more His Majesty's Indian subjects had shown themselves the most inharmonious group in the war-bound Empire...
...Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs than the Harvard backfield...