Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME is to be congratulated for . . . making available to the lay public the philosophies of the great religious thinkers whose ivory towers are not easily available to modern...
...other hand, the great Protestant theologians are perfectly correct and more satisfying than the Roman Catholics in their statements of the nature of God and of man, and of the meaning of the act of faith. However, they lay the main emphasis of their teaching on sin, which in its turn throws the whole structure of Protestant popular devotion out of gear . . . This results in the placing of eucharistic devotion to one side, in the periphery of devotion and as a practical result, Protestant services become drab and lacking in all life and color...
...flatlands of the Yangtze delta. In the second week of the South China offensive the Reds' pace had slowed down somewhat, but they triumphantly reported eight Nationalist armies crushed and trapped between the Yangtze and the coast. Hangchow, last coastal railroad gateway to the south, was deserted and lay open to the conquerors. Red armies also bore down on Shanghai...
Like those who know where to lay hands on Ambrose Bierce, Charley Ross or Judge Crater, there are people who turn up at irregular intervals with grandiose and intricate claims to large chunks of the U.S. Lawyers make money out of these things, and everybody else laughs. On the stage of Madrid's Teatro Martin one night recently, everybody laughed at "Lepe," Spain's favorite clown...
...frightening idea really began to ake hold on June 24, 1947. That was the lay when Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho ooked out of his airplane near Mt. Rainier nd saw-or thought he saw-nine enormous discs flying at 1,200 m.p.h. The .ewspapers began to talk about "flying saucers...