Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hermitage, famed in Democratic song and story. When Jackson was the first U. S. President of the "common people" (1829-37), the fine ok southern mansion was the political centre of the land. Later it served its owner as a refuge from political storms. "Old Hickory" and his Rachel lie buried nearby under a huge magnolia. In 1856 his adopted son sold it to Tennessee for $48,000. Now it is valued at a million...
...future of Cleveland now seems to lie as straight and clear as yonder moon beams...
...says when they fall out all things will come to an end. Of the many relics sanctified to Jews, holiest is the Wailing Wall. For generations they have gone there to lament ". . . for the Temple that is destroyed . . . for our Majesty that is departed ... for our Great Men who lie dead...
...Britain for his "modern" methods of popularizing religion. Carefully he had studied the success of medieval miracle plays at Salzburg under the 20th Century Producer Max Reinhardt. Elaborate was the similar festival the earnest Bishop arranged for Canterbury. Throughout the week, Dr. Faustus by Kit Marlowe, who used to lie and dream on Canterbury's hills, was alternated with Everyman. Other attractions were concerts in the Cathedral's nave, serenades in the cloisters, chamber music in the chapter house. Newsreeling cinemen jostled through the crowds. Every event went out to all Britain by radio...
Sleep is on a level with the body's vegetative reflex functions, according to Switzerland's Walter R. Hess. It is the consequence of a state of excitation of certain portions of the brain. Those portions lie along the same brain strata from which the liver, stomach, etc., are influenced...