Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be flying. And he had designed, although he had not yet built, a machine for humans to fly albatross-wise. His machine was to have a wingspan of 25 ft., a tail of 12 ft., and a weight of 150 Ib. The man who would operate it, would lie prone. His feet would flap the contrivance's wings; his hands would steer...
...imresolutions which are after all the important things. For in no yague fashions do the festivities of celebration invoke a painful celebration that is conducive to the thumbing of leaves. After all, the sheet is clean, and since one makes one's own bed and has to lie in it, it does seem too bad to dirty the linen. Writers can wash it in public, but most people rounding the curve and seeing the straight stretch are too weak not to determine to keep the sprint unimpeded. And so they make resolutions, and are the better for it; and break...
...snow-flecked Peking, not in tropical Canton, and not in any of the thousands of square miles that lie between did Chinese cry to one another, last week, Rung Hor Sun Hay! ("Happy New Year!"). Reasons: in the second place, very few Chinese had legitimate cause for happiness; and, in the first place, their "new year" does not come until February?when it is observed with fireworks. Thus the thoughts of the docile, unoffensive people of China were not lightened by holiday fripperies, last week, but they were darkened and depressed by a grim certainty: it is at this season...
When recompleted, Sculptor Baker's enormous woman will be stationed on top of an elevation in the Cherokee Strip, once the last public land in the U. S. Around her will lie a park whose total cost, including the woman herself, will...
...police dog, struck by a truck, died. Mrs. Price asked that he be allowed to have a grave beside her daughter's grave, but this could not be allowed. So the police dog was buried behind the house where he had lived, and a marble police dog will lie near small Jule Price...