Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attackers would say, 'That is enough let him go.' Then they would pick me up'and stand me on my feet, but I was no sooner on my feet than they would knock me down again. This went on about five times. They let me lie there for a while. . . . Every once in a while someone would grind his heel into me. They pulled my legs apart and kicked me in the scrotum...
Even without Commander Woodrooffe, the review that took place earlier that day was a naval occasion no Briton should forget. Between Portsmouth on the Hampshire shore and the green Isle of Wight lie the most famed yachting waters in the world. Here in a carefully marked out area of 24 sq. mi. were assembled 277 ships ranging from the world's greatest warship, the 42,000-ton battle cruiser Hood, to a proud delegation of British herring trawlers. Wardroom statisticians quickly figured that the 143 British warships in line alone displaced 670,000 tons, cost British taxpayers...
Today the R.O.T.C. stages its first grand review at Harvard. If a certain particularly ornery horse doesn't lie down on the soldier who buttons his cinch, it will probably not be the last. Military science and Naval Science have large followings at Harvard as at other colleges. And if these R.O.T.C. men believe in the merits of preparedness and the rather completed ineptitude of the present U.S. force in comparison with other armies, let them make their grand demonstration today be but the opening gun in their own noise making campaign for the ideal of preparedness as against that...
...Falls, near where the Littlefork enters the Rainy River. If flood waters washed the logs over the piles driven to impound them, they might shoot away from the mill down the Rainy, into Lake of the Woods; if the river went down as far as it rose logs would lie stranded on the banks; and in either case the last big logging drive in Minnesota would be spoiled...
...hard times, workers lie low, stock-holders raise Ned about dividends. In good times, workers raise Ned, stockholders behave. Consequently, while U. S. Industry was still confronted with strikes (see p. 16) during this year's spring meetings, stockholders were generally good-tempered, directors were concerned with dividends and continued good times...