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Word: layed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper Al Misri, "were very surprised and annoyed when they heard of the bombing of Yemenite villages by the R.A.F. We don't know how Britain could do such a thing. She should be ashamed of herself." Last week, four be-daggered Yemeni arrived at Flushing Meadows to lay their case before .the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Supply & Demand | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Freer Trade? All the dislocation and hullabaloo would be amply balanced if devaluation accomplished its immediate purpose: a breathing spell for Britain. Beyond that lay an even more important goal: freeing trade from phony exchange rates. The $4.03 pound was phony because a pound would not buy in Britain as much as $4.03 would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Devaluation | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

When the conference ended, Franks was picked to head the European delegation to Washington to lay before the U.S. the 16 nations' thoughts and plans. To a spellbound conference of U.S. officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Some Person of Wisdom | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Lord, I give him into Thy hand, as a captain putteth a sword into the hand of his sovereign, wherewith to lay waste his enemies. May he be a two-edged weapon in Thy hand and a spear coming out of Thy mouth, to destroy, and overcome, and pass over; and may the enemies of Thy Church fall down before him, and be as dung to fat the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-Christicm Soldier | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Dutch Engineer Cornelis Pot, 64, arrived in Manhattan last week with a slightly different solution. For Pot, the old scale was still serviceable: the trouble lay in the way it was put to paper, with a confusion of sharps, flats and keys. In his Klavarscribo method ("marvelously simple, simply marvelous," says Pot happily), all of that is eliminated by indicating notes (and measures) on vertical lines that correspond to the keys of the piano, black notes for black keys, white for white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Problem of Style | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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