Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anent the New Zealand egg story [TIME, Feb. 13]. No marvel to readers is the fact that bedridden Harold Ryder "set" on a chicken egg and succeeded in hatching it. Any constantly warm location would have done the same for said egg. The marvel lies in the fact that Mr. Ryder, who probably weighs between 100 and 200 pounds, was able to lie abed with an egg for 25 days and nights and not so much as crack the shell...
...dreamt how he would lie beside that brook...
...Fine Arts department thus fails to accomplish what should be its highest goal to teach a student the method by which he can judge art for himself, to show him the universal essentials which lie behind all art. The attainment of such a goal entails far less emphasis on facts and chronology--these become a means to an end rather than an end in themselves. It means greater stress on practical art and design; and more than this, a close integration of practical work and history. It means the coordination of art with other branches of knowledge. It means finally...
...leading democracy of the world. Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies or do they lie with the totalitarian states? The present tempest in a teapot is stirred up by the fact that a Frenchman flew in a test plane which France quite legally was going...
Between Brooklyn, N. Y. and Honolulu, Hawaii, lie some 5.500 miles of land and sea. All that Ben Fleigelmann of Brooklyn thought he had to do to make that trip was join the U. S. Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky...