Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purely a practice encounter calculated to whip the Varsity back into shape after a long mid-year lay-off, the game was played under a mutual no-body-checking and no-penalties agreement. It was the second time that the two teams have met this season...
Wednesday night's game was the last for the Varsity until a week from Saturday when the Saint Nicholas Club comes to Boston for an Arena encounter. On the following Wednesday the Varsity will resume its League schedule with Dartmouth at the Boston Garden, breaking a League lay-off of almost exactly one month...
Often has it been pointed out that the British made two sets of conflicting promises, one to the Arabs, another to the Jews, for Palestine. Author Antonius does not lay the conflicting promises as much to British duplicity as to the fact that the British left hand often was ignorant of what the right hand was doing. The Foreign Office, the India Office, the War Office, the Admiralty, the Arab Bureau in Cairo all had hands in the Arab negotiations. Moreover, says the author, "it behooves the Arabs to remember that war and rectitude are not natural companions." He asks...
Most memorable hoaxer in We, the People's history was Mollie Ticklepitcher from Turnip Top Ridge, Jasper, Tenn. Down Jasper way, she wrote, she was considered quite a character. She'd mid-wived most of the young'uns in her time and had helped lay out most of the dead ones, too. Never been away from home but wanted like everything to come to New York, particularly to say a word or two over the radio in behalf of fat people. Her fat son had been taking a lot of joshing-people used to say that when...
...hove to off Pitcairn. Out rowed a Pitcairner with two gift parcels, one for Mrs. Hall, the other for DeGhett. On the way home the City of Delhart's Radio Operator Scruggs kept trying at odd times to raise Mrs. Hall or DeGhett. Last week as the ship lay in Hoboken, Scruggs caught De Ghett's ear. Pitcairn had told DeGhetl about the gifts. Here they were at last Scruggs advised him to hurry over and get "the stuff." "We're sailing tomorrow," he said, "and you ought to get it tonight. I'll leave...