Word: layings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third term. . . . Obviously, the President cannot in advance decline a renomination that may never be offered him. Just as obviously, with the world in such a turmoil as it is today outside of this continent, it cannot be forecast whether the American people would permit him to lay down his burden in view of possible eventualities...
...Dedham physician and inn-keeper, Ames distributed his first issue in 1725. His publication became the most popular of its kind in New England and reached the then enormous circulation of 60,000. His calendar included such bits of wit as this: "Dec. 7-10. 'Ladies take heed, Lay down your fans, And handle well, Your warming paus...
...Manhattan's Columbus Hospital Extension, 16 years ago, an hour-old infant lay near death. A nurse, later adjudged to have been "tired," had bathed his eyes with the wrong solution of silver nitrate, 50% instead of 1%, which had blinded him, seared his cheeks with deep furrows, and with its fumes caused pneumonia. Though his doctor had given the infant up as hopeless, a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart, which maintained the hospital, obtained the doctor's permission to pin on the babe's clothing a medal of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder...
After a long succession of disappointingly impersonal reports, the Anthracite Commission last week turned up a genuine old-fashioned villain for George Earle to hiss. Coal operators lay their troubles to high taxes and John L. Lewis. More impartial observers lay them in good measure to the coal operators, who allowed the alert oil industry to invade their market after the great anthracite strike of 1922. Almost inevitably, George Earle's commission had come around to that old favorite, the House of Morgan...
When in 1794 James Boswell lay dying, he wrote to his brother in London, asking him to deposit ?5 to the account of a Rev. Mr. Baron: "He takes charge of paying the gratuity to Mary Broad." This letter set investigators whoofing on the trail of another promising secret of Boswell's abundant life. At trail's end was: no dirt, as had been half expected, but further data on a seldom-mentioned side of the little man-his interest in prison reform. Mary Broad, it turns out, was the alias of one Mary Bryant, who was convicted...