Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest New World building yet discovered lay in the California sunshine last week. Amateur Archaeologist C. D. McCown was troweling away at the camp site of Pinto Man found eight months ago in the hot Mojave Desert (TIME, May 31). Under the dry surface he came on what looked like a pesthole. The wood of the post had disappeared thousands of years ago, but in its place was sand contrasting with the undisturbed earth around it. Other diggers downed their tools and hurried up excitedly; such filled-in postholes are treasures in archaeology...
...reason enthroned again? Oh! You men of business! . . . Last night you declared that you would lay the earth at my feet...
Like corpses in a morgue, track-&-field stars lay sprawled on benches in the locker room. They were trying to relax before the big test: the two-day tryouts to pick the three athletes in each event to "make the boat" for the XIV Olympiad. Making the boat (the S.S. America) for London this week didn't depend on how many world's records a man had set already; under the ironclad Olympic rules, the only thing that mattered now was how he did in Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium...
...worth of houses-at an average price of $14,000, an average profit of about 10%-and borrowed more than $5,000,000 to keep on building. Such narrow margins permit no dillydallying: before last week's 105-house sale, Liberty had already begun to lay the foundations for 47 houses in an adjoining area; they would be ready in about four months...
...never misses a chance to remind them of the fact. He has married his wife, Charlotte, for her money, "hoping to serve his impoverished estate, and she had married him for love, hoping to fulfil herself. The love had gone and the money remained, so that the advantage lay with Horace, if he could have taken so hopeful a view of his life." Also dependent on Horace's so-called bounty are his weak-willed, affectionate cousin Mortimer (who is in love with Charlotte), his shadowy aunt Emilia and his five underfed, cheaply clothed children...