Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signs of improvement. Last year 88.5% of the trains arrived within five minutes of the schedule--up 6% since 1979. It may be better than it was in the '70s, but it is not yet as good as it was in 1902, when Teddy Roosevelt's summer White House lay in Oyster Bay at the end of the North Shore line, and the service was bully...
...literature without tasting." Instead, he aggressively savored books in print, waging a constant campaign on behalf of his conviction that the novel is "the most magnificent form of art." James was not entirely alone in this belief. But unlike his contemporary critics and champions of fiction, he refused to lay down rules and precepts about what constitutes good novels: "The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. That general responsibility rests upon it, but it is the only one I can think...
...building, about half an hour after the exam had officially ended, he noticed the delinquent student, still writing as fast as his hand could fly across the page. The proctor was shocked, and in his sternest administrator's voice, he summoned the student to the front desk. The offender lay down his pencil, picked up his blue book, and slowly trundled across the hall...
...adds President Bok to the harmonious chorus. "He's provided marvelous leadership. He's the most successful and dedicated lay leader of a fund anyone's ever heard...
From a similar window 134 years ago, Arnold beheld his progressive, aggressive world and began serenely: "The sea is calm tonight./ The tide is full, the moon lies fair/ Upon the Straits . . . Come to the window, sweet is the night air!" A long, successful life lay ahead of him. His new bride was near by. But by the end of the stanza, he was hearing the "eternal note of sadness" in the sea and the rolling of the pebbles, and by the second stanza, the "ebb and flow/ Of human misery" was overwhelming. The final lines of Dover Beach...