Word: lays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call for long distance men was issued two weeks ago. Others who cared to attend practice during this time were offered the advantages of special individual instruction before the main body of hurdlers, sprinters, and jumpers turned out today. Candidates for the Freshman team, after a lay-off of two weeks following the Exeter meet, were summoned outside two weeks ago, to prepare for their first meet, which will be with Andover on April...
...reads Section 3 of the 18th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. To the lay mind it may not seem particularly funny, but last week it caused Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah some great−though very temporary−amusement...
Bare walls, and a plain French wooden bed. For 24 hours, last week, the Generalissimo tried out an "American bed"-with a crank and gadgets-then resumed his austere pallet. As he lay with fast-beating pulse, enduring alternate chills and fever, the man with the calm grey eyes would sometimes cast them for a long time on the richly embroidered Banner of all the Allied Nations, which hung above his head. Sometimes too he would call for his baton-the baton of a Marshal of France-and with the tips of his old fingers would caress along the shaft...
...followed each move of the Mexican revolution (see MEXICO), as Mme. Foch read rapidly from latest editions of Le Temps. Ever and always the Generalissimo, her husband, who had long since lost all appetite, ordered his jaws to chew, his gullet to swallow, and so far as in him lay, his stomach to digest...
...crowd kept in safety by marshals, some newsreel photographers pointed their cameras last week at the snouted White Triplex car roaring toward them at 202 m. p. h. over the hard sand. The car swerved. Driver Lee Bible lost control. The car somersaulted prodigiously toward the cameras. When it lay still, Driver Bible, thrown far away, and one of the photographers, a big fellow named Charles Traub, crushed by three tons of pitchpoling steel, were dead. The film of the accident, complete in Traub's camera, went out at once to Pathe exhibitors...