Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live here in Martigues, a small and ancient fishing village on the Etang de Berre, a saltwater pond that is the centre of aviation for Southern France. On its shores lie Istres, the base from which many of the long distance flights for South America are prepared, and which, because of climate and topography is well-adapted for breaking records; Berre, the naval air base; and Marignane, the commercial airport for Marseille...
...hundred and fifty-eight dollars was all that the French Government realized from an auction of the personal belongings of the late Great Swindler Alexandre Serge Stavisky, against whose estate lie claims...
...nature but as a textbook definition, as a goal which haunts the minds of low-temperature researchers and which they do not expect to attain. Cold is the absence of heat. Heat is molecular activity. Thus Absolute Zero is the point at which the molecules that compose matter would lie like heaps of corpses in rigid juxtaposition. Physicists locate Absolute Zero at -273.13° Centigrade...
...reverse to National Government was especially heavy to young Tory statesmen like Oliver Stanley, whose family has provided statesmen since 1385. If even the Church of England is plumping for a "Square Deal" in 1935, where will these young Tories be 20 years hence, when their elders of today lie in honored graves? Just now two other young Mayfair statesmen comprise with Major Stanley the outstanding trinity of coming non-Laborite leaders...
...year ago last October an undergraduate wag decided he would ask the President if the bells could be named for him. Mr. Roosevelt wrote a warm acceptance to Professor Coolidge, saying lie was "delighted and greatly honored." Mr. Coolidge, to whom the idea had apparently never occurred, found that the terms of the gift made this solution impossible, and was forced to write his former pupil that he had been the victim of a prank