Word: lays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Puntarenas. On a sandy bottom 50 feet below sea level off the coast of Costa Rica the U.S. submarine 529 lay prostrate on, its belly. Within, its crew perspired and waited. Divers descended, hoses were screwed to newly installed valves in the submarine's side, cool air invaded the sunken fish. Soon, afterward the divers attached air hoses to the ballast tanks of the vessel; then, cocking a snook through the heavy glass ports at those within, the divers rose to the surface. Great eddies began to surge from the ballast tanks as the water was forced...
...women and children) contained a veiled rebuke for female failure to use contraceptives. The rebuke consisted of a cartoon by Donald McKee, captioned "Why the March Hare Was Mad." It depicted a buck hare hopping furiously beside a huge bed on whose three pillows lay an abashed, puzzled doe hare with nine newborn.* Harold the buck hare: "Again? What's the idea? Did you never hear of Birth Control...
...fire in the Georgian Cafeteria on Wednesday were overshadowed in importance last night. A uniformed fireman knocked at the door of the Hasty Pudding clubhouse and wanted to know when "Fireman, Save My Child" would first he played in Cambridge. He was told. He then confided the suspicion that lay behind such fraternality...
...story of "the wonder and the dread" of adolescence seems to be as perennial as the rather widespread and universal development of the child into the man. It is a topic which, indeed, affects most of us, and with which some author is always ready to deal; to lay bare the psychology of the youth as he gets his first glimpse of life in its various aspects...
...best plan for the undergraduate is to lay the foundation of his library by first acquiring in well-printed editions the works of the early English authors he becomes acquainted with through his college work. These are preferable in contemporary editions, if such are obtainable...