Word: layings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...degree in Economics and the other on a Hockey letter found after two weeks of experience that he could not attend a 2 o'clock lecture and 2:30 o'clock practice at the same time. After suffering ill words from both sides until a point beyond which lay ruin, he determined to do something about it. He took a hockey stick to class Friday...
...were not for the birds," said Fletcher, "we would have no flora and consequently no animal food. For on a typical apple tree the female gypsy moth lays 500 eggs. Each of the moths from these eggs lay 500 more eggs, and in a few years there are literally millions of caterpillars, even allowing for a fifty per cent mortality...
After the kickoff one of the school players sneaked over to the side lines and lay there until the first play. When the ball was snapped back, he rose up and caught a long pass that was tossed to him, a perfectly executed sleeper pass. But the Harvard Freshman seconds were still in there fighting. They caught up with the catcher of the pass and were about to smother him on their own 30-yard line, but again they were fooled...
...largely in the hands of the same judiciary; he attacks the Providential State and then builds a liberal state that provides innumerable services for its citizens; he rages at the New Deal's overhead direction and then reenacts its program in the name of social control. In trying to lay bare the framework of the Good Society Mr. Lippmann only reveals the confusions of his own mind
...Investigators Bourke -White and Caldwell admittedly focused their attention and their camera on the poor-white and shanty-nigger side of Southern life, thus present a picture heavily weighted with misery, unrelieved by contrasting views of more prosperous levels. They lay themselves open to charges by patriotic Southerners that a similar investigation of lower-stratum existence in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, might produce equally humiliating results. Meanwhile, You Have Seen Their Faces stands as eye-witness evidence that there are indeed many U. S. citizens ill-clad, ill-nourished and ill-housed...