Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Believing that the days of the session were numbered, Senators continued avidly in pursuit of the facts supposed to lie behind their various investigations. The two chief plays upon the board were the Daugherty and Mayfield investigations...
Needless to say, lie is sending to Philadelphia a crew which will almost surely win, since it has beaten all its rivals heretofore by wide margins. The Yale eight will do an enormous amount of hustling to make the shift from Red Top to Philadelphia and back to Red Top again...
...hope and dependence of the liberal college, says Professor Dewey, "lie in the growth of the free mind and the perfecting of standards of thought and inquiry." It is doubtless toward this goal that the present tendencies are merging--for Professor Dewey himself declares that much progress has been made in the last quarter of a century. Yet rather than wait for the slow if inevitable triumph of liberalism and its methods over conservative reactionaries it is conceivably possible to aid its progress by attacking those causes of illiberalism which have been identified...
...world to see that right is done in the end." House of Commons. The Conservative Party's motion (TIME, May 12) condemning the abolition of the McKenna duties was defeated by 317 to 252 votes. The debate was dull- except for the use of the prohibited word "lie" by Captain Terrel, Conservative, which brought him into conflict with the Speaker. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden also stirred the House by an unusually "acrid and ironical" speech. ¶ The Labor bill for the nationalization of the mines was defeated by 264 to 168 votes. It was the first definitely...
...reason for this rise of standard, many perhaps be that the public the great, Democratic, American public--is gradually absorbing a little "education." The excuse, (If excuse is needed), for the tremendous recent increase in attendance at American colleges, may lie in this. The teaching of literature and the so-called "liberal arts", will perhaps lead eventually to a permanent development of the much-discussed, 25,000-year-old "aesthetic sense" in man. If they accomplish only this, American colleges will have more than fulfilled their duty in the country...