Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PROGRESSIVE BUTTERFISH: Member of the croaker family. Changes shape unpredictably. Feeds on Black Sea caviar, apparently without knowing what he is eating. Travels upstream to lay eggs on public platforms...
...never reached. Thereupon, he had gone out from Cuzco with a group of eager young scientists, had struck down the might gorge of the Urubamba canyon. Finally, on a muleteer's grudging tip, Bingham crawled up the peak known as Machu Picchu. There, under trees and matted vines, lay the lost city...
Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum of Art lay awash this week in a show of pictures and ship models illustrating the history of the U.S. Navy. It was the un-arty kind of exhibition that brings in people who ordinarily would not bother to go into an art museum. It also included some topgallant...
...amaze some parents. For boys, there is a service station whose lubricating-hoist, air-hose and gasoline pump really work. For girls, there is an electric vacuum sweeper that sweeps, and scores of stuffed animals and dolls that demonstrate one or another fact of life. There are hens that lay and pregnant dogs and rabbits whose offspring tumble out of zippered stomachs. There are dolls that coo when patted and cry when spanked and eat crackers (removable from a hole in the neck). There is even one which blows bubbles and, if "burped" like a baby, promptly burps...
...Father Joseph Henri Tabaret, who took charge of the school five years after it started, Bishop Guigues had just the man to make his bilingual theory work. A start was made toward separating lay classes and students for the priesthood. Science courses were introduced...