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Word: layings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across its circular, hardwood floor; the poles were of polished hardwood and the covering was gaudily decorated with Osage hieroglyphic figures. He conceded that this might be a fit place for a red man to sleep. Much later, he was induced to spend a night in the house. He lay down upon a bed but, when morning came, the mattress had been dragged to the floor and John slept there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...Tabernacle and Overseer Voliva later said he heard 15 explosions. Zion's head theocrat frantically summoned firemen. Le Roy Peacy, the salesman who was Christus in the Passion Play, rescued his costume, but the building burned quickly, set fire to the Church's adjacent broadcasting station, lay in ruins before Zion and Waukegan firemen could do much about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passion in Ashes | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Manhattan last week, while A. & P.'s General Counsel Caruthers Ewing paced the floor of the hearing room for three impatient hours, waiting to lay the legal foundation of a constitutional test, the Federal Trade Commission tried to find out why A. & P. thought there was any difference between asking the old 4% brokerage allowance and insisting on a 4% discount. "Perhaps it's a fine distinction," explained A. & P.'s Charles W. Parr, "but it is an important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: This Is Business! | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...controlled note of bitterness pervades his farewell as he came away from the drydock where the Joseph Conrad lay alongside the swanky yachts which she would presently resemble when refitted by her new owner, 24-year-old G. Huntington Hartford, grandson of the A. & P. stores founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Frigate | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Fiction I WANTED WINGS-Beirne Lay Jr.- Harper ($2.50). The education of a U. S. Army flyer at Randolph and Kelly Fields, Texas. Spirited, informative reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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