Word: layings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thick-o'-fog and a drizzle fell in Weymouth Bay one day last week. Quiet in the fog, whispering at anchor, lay scores of great grey ghosts-Britain's reserve fleet, assembled from shipyards throughout the British Isles for royal review. The older salts were pointing and saying: "Remember...
...Chicago Daily News's dependable Archibald T. Steele told what had happened to a Canadian. While Canadian Missionary Minnie Shipley lay dying of typhus in a Canadian mission hospital in Changteh (Hunan), demonstrators drove away Chinese employes of the hospital, isolated the building until the patient died...
During the last three months of her pregnancy, pious, 24-year-old Mrs. Esperanza Sacramenta Rafael of Manila lay in bed gazing at a chromo of Christ pointing to his exposed, bleeding heart. Last fortnight, in a small hospital in the Tondo slum district, Mrs. Rafael gave birth to a seven-pound baby girl, named Maria Corazon (Mary Heart). The baby's heart, faintly beating, lay on her chest, outside her body. Mrs. Rafael's friends, who thronged to the hospital, stoutly maintained that the baby's condition was due to Mrs. Rafael's daily adoration...
...secret of Gamelin's military success lay largely in his old mapmaker's and landscapist's instinct for geography. Not only was he able to take the maximum advantage of terrain so as to conserve manpower, but his shrewd disposition of fire power constantly enhanced the offensive quality of his command. His many citations praised his "highest qualities of method and of inspection" and his ability to carry his objectives "in the course of a general offensive at the cost of minimum losses." The French soldier did not like him less for that and the present French...
Catholic Action, for its 1,000,000 male and female members, agreed to remove its lay directors, let local bishops and priests run the organization. Forbidden henceforth is the wearing of Catholic Action buttons on Fascist uniforms. About the only important point which Catholic Action won over Farinacci's objections: Fascist party members, unbuttoned, may still belong...