Word: layings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind France's action last week lay persistent rumors buzzing in the Far East for the past month that Japan had eyes on the islands, planned to establish there a seaplane base to be used in a campaign against South China. So far no Japanese warships have been seen in the vicinity, but Japanese fishermen and workers have been shipped to the reefs in increasing numbers...
...steaming bamboo hut near Manila, a lean, bronzed young U. S. chemist sat with a small native child on his knees. The child lay rigid, its face, arms and legs swollen, the rest of its body wasted. The child whimpered at the burning pain in his heart and intestines. He was dying of beriberi, ancient Oriental disease. The chemist thrust a few drops of an extract from rice hulls between the child's lips. Almost instantly the boy revived, and young Chemist Robert Runnels Williams, India-born son of U. S. missionaries, knew that he had saved a life...
...public subscription or private endowment, to train Scandinavian and Polish boys in seamanship, they carried from 80 to 100 youngsters on cruises on which the boys did all the work-"hand, reef, and steer, and keep the ship up." Because there were no able-bodied seamen aboard, the ships lay at anchor for the first part of the cruise, until the boys learned to handle them. Almost all the world's navies now train sailors on sailing vessels, but only in the Baltic countries are citizens interested enough to provide such training for the merchant marine, to subscribe funds...
...This report would substantiate lay testimony about two other dicephalous monsters who lived briefly last century. Ritta & Christina born at Sassari, Italy in 1829, waked & slept, laughed & wept diversely, and caused religious people of the time to debate "whether she had two souls or one." Another Italian, Giovanni & Giacomo, born at Locarno in 1877, could not walk because each head controlled only the leg on its side of the common body. He never learned to place one foot in front of the other...
With a fifth campaign coming to decision in November, FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch last week announced that he would lay before his Commission the question of promulgating rules for distributing time to political candidates. A formal petition for campaign regulations recently came from station WTAR (Norfolk, Va.). WTAR was tired of having to take on itself the politically dangerous (as well as costly) responsibility of allotting politicians the use of its station...