Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under such a system. Other schools--among which Yale is an out-standing example--lay much more emphasis on placement and much less on discovering aptitudes and inclinations. In a time when jobs are scarce, the Yale man who has been told precisely where his best chances lie is likely to have a distinct advantage over the Harvard man who has been told that he would make a good banker, or insurance agent. Even today, competition is high among college graduates, and a bureau concerned with actual placement would be a great service to many students...
...surgical patient can never hope to lie in a bed of roses, but it is becoming less & less a bed of pain. Without making head lines, or much of a splash, a steady drip of knowledge goes on eroding much of the hospital's horror...
Math.42. Lie Groups. Half-course (spring term). Tu., Th., Sat., at 12. Mr. Gleason...
Rugby has produced such Englishmen as Matthew Arnold (Thomas' son), Lewis Carroll, Rupert Brooke, Neville Chamberlain and the new head master himself, , who as head boy of the school in 1917 occupied the famed "Tom Brown's Study," alongside the Head Master's House lie will now inherit. He also won his colors for Rugby and cricket...
Salarino: Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wracked on the narrow seas; the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very dangerous fiat, and fatal, where the carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried...