Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Am I right in my recollection that a few weeks ago you promised to quit talking about the weather and do something about it? If yesterday's tropical hurricane is an example of your efforts, I beg you to lay off, and devote yourself to your own business...
Breakfast in Charleston, S.C. has been for generations a high social rite. At 8:00 one morning last week, custom in Charleston was interrupted. At 8:07 a. m., 31 victims lay dead or dying (including one Arthur Pinckney, Negro, but no others of great name or lineage). Honored walls and lovely trees were down or damaged. To the Bombardments of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Great Gale of 1804, the Earthquake of 1886, had been added Charleston's Three Tornadoes...
Crimson cheerleaders will continue to try to evoke oral enthusiasm, technically known as "chatter" from the Harvard stands today. The season's first acrobatics will be introduced, but there will not be a stunt until next week. One cheerleader reported that "we are ready to lay down our larynxes for our college...
...Downer can be a blighter, so can I. I'd challenge him to a blighting contest tomorrow if I thought it would do any good. But I guess If Harvard's going to act like that there's very little I can do about it. I hereby lay even money, though, that Downer turns out to be a very dynamo of energy, and as for his being a blighter, I'll bet he's a quivering mass of social graces. --The Yale Daily News...
...Gulf of California to Guaymas with pauses for dredging, diving, fishing. Although it begins with an account of Beebe's sensational discovery that there are snipefish on both the east and west coasts of the U. S.-a discovery whose exact scientific importance escapes the lay reader-it quickly gives way to discussions of Mr. Beebe's first deep-sea fishing, a comparison of the flight of pelicans and cormorants, a spirited defense of vultures and well-chosen excerpts from the works of other naturalists. One of these, Dr. L. H. Matthews' description of the mating habits...