Word: layings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those ten hard years lay heavy in the thoughts of big, bashful Francis Breese Davis Jr. last week as he handed reporters a mimeographed announcement: for the first time since 1928 United States Rubber Co. has declared a dividend-4% on its 8% preferred. Since 1929, when Mr. Davis became chairman and president of U. S. Rubber, that overfed, unhealthy industrial giant had several times been within a banker's nod of extinction. Last week the giant was healthy again, its waistline of funded debt reduced from $130,000,000 to $46,000,000, its muscles bulging with...
...unnamed beach summer before last an unnamed hypogonadal (undersexed) man lay down in "an abbreviated bathing suit of peculiar cut." He lay there for seven broiling August afternoons and scarcely changed color...
Veteran. Big, stoop-shouldered George Fielding Eliot got his baptism of fire as a second lieutenant of Australian infantry. He began to write, however, as a major of the U. S. military intelligence reserve. Behind this shift of allegiance lay a long story: born in Brooklyn 44 years ago, he migrated to Australia with his parents at eight, returned to the U. S. to school, was in college at Melbourne when the War broke out. He fought at the Dardanelles from May through August 1915, was transferred to the Western front, where he went through the battles of the Somme...
...complexity of this day there was a challenge, in its very danger there was a thrill of reality, and in the vision it offered there lay the reward. For all these the Vagabond was grateful. And he was grateful for Harvard, too, because it fitted in and was fitting him . . . Perhaps he would have the chance someday to trace the steps of some pioneer, doing the job quietly, methodically, the way they taught him at Harvard, Perhaps someday he would even have some hens. Even more than for the present, Vag was grateful for the future...
...experiment did not prove that "laboratory babies" were possible. Its significance lay rather in the fact that certain pathological tumors (teratomas) which contain hair, bone and even gland cells, may have developed from egg cells which received mechanical stimulation, started to become embryos. Further experimentation may even shed light on the development of common ovarian cysts...