Word: lays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference with Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover called for a quick and thorough study of postal costs by mail classes. At the Post Office Department, many an official was sure that the only remedy lay in increasing postal rates, especially on second and fourth class matter, a proposal which they knew would arouse the bitterest antagonism in Congress, which alone can sanction...
Chairman Legge led his Board away to temporary offices at the Mayflower Hotel, there to begin their work "immediately." Said Chairman Legge: "What we farmers must learn is to do collective thinking. . . . When we [of International Harvester] have a problem to solve we get all information in and lay it on the table and go over it collectively. . . . We all start together from scratch and think collectively. . . . This is just the way I want to start the work of this Farm Board. . . . We will proceed slowly and surely because conservatism is necessary for safety...
...Students League, where hun dreds of students learned that this man with the sensitive Gallic features and wide-set, almost almond eyes, could stimu late their vision and would carefully avoid imposing his own or any particular technique. In his insistence on vision rather than style lay his greatness as a teacher. "Every stave in a picket fence," he wrote, "should be drawn with wit, the wit of one who sees each stave as new evidence about the fence. The staves should not repeat each other. A new fence is stiff, but it doesn't stand long before there...
...Rodney's officers changed their cricket flannels quickly, motored 15 miles to Torbay where the Rodney, world's twin- largest battleship lay at anchor.? Dartmouth cadets, thinking of Drake and his officers who were called from playing bowls to fight the Spanish Armada, buzzed with questions...
During the interview, Amanullah's wife, Queen Thuraya, lay, heavy and silent, in her deck chair. She had just borne another child (a daughter named India) at Bombay and looked more like a poor emigrant than an exiled queen. Amanullah complained of poverty, said he had only $30, had had to abandon his clothes when he fled from Kandahar, Afghanistan...