Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should it happen, it would be a political thunderclap. Its boldness would be equalled only by the uncertainty of its effect, for it would be wholly unprecedented. Its folly would lie in staking much where nothing needs be staked; in prematurely disappointing many an ambitious man whose attachment Candidate Smith would need until November...
More than 7,000 miles lie between Paris and Buenos Aires, a rail and boat journey of three weeks, but letters will soon pass from one to the other in ten days. Planes will carry mail from Paris to Toulouse, to Alicante, Tangier, Casablanca, and Dakar on Cape Verde off the coast of Africa. A special boat will carry the mail to the most northeasterly point of Brazil. And there planes will again take up the burden, resuming service to the Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay. Charge for one letter: circa...
...seven week revival meeting. "As long as you live you'll never see another meeting like this one. . . ." This last sermon had a text, taken from Exodus VIII., 10: "And he said 'Tomorrow.' " Billy Sunday said: "Tomorrow-that's the soft lounge on which multitudes lie down to be lulled into an eternal sleep...
...assignments. But when one considers that the lectures in some courses do not cover the same ground as the contemporaneous reading, and that few courses hold quizzes directly prior to the examination period, the novelty of the Reading Period diminishes. Furthermore, the prospects of the examinations which lie in wait at the conclusion of the Period are a considerable stimulus to student industry...
...remark that the regulations for investigation rights inherent in the League of Nations do not apply in the present case. However, the Hungarian Government as a courtesy to the Council's President, will ask the purchaser of the goods to leave them untouched where they now lie...