Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Salinas, Calif., Alta Fickle, 20, obsessed with the idea that her right arm would kill someone, lay down on a railroad track, waited until a train came by and amputated the arm. Said she: "I am happy...
Rolling at anchor in a pea-soup fog, the Italian salvage ship Artiglio lay off Cape Finistere last week and plumbed the depths. Steamers passing in the nearby trade lanes hooted mournfully but the Artiglio paid little attention. She was hunting one of the richest prizes of the ocean bottom...
Rolling in the grey North Atlantic swell, His Majesty's sloop Harebell and the steamer Dunara Castle lay off the bleak precipitous island of St. Kilda last week. Plunging out through the surf. Royal Navy lifeboats carried to the Harebell 35 passengers, the entire population of St. Kilda, which the Harebell's precise commander reported thus: Men, able bodied...
...lead and little Genung started after Hampson. He caught him at 440 yd., passed him in the backstretch, finished 70 yd. ahead. Then the crowd found out that De Mers' single javelin-throw had been 198 ft. 4½ in., 8½ ft. short of New Zealander Stan Lay's, but giving the U. S. a winning total of 594 ft. ½ in. With the other events going as had been expected, and eight meet records broken (but no world records), the U.S. had an easy win, 9 points...
...London instead of coming to Newport the trials might have gone on. Shamrock had scared the committee by showing what she could do in light winds. One day, out to stretch her rig, she whisked under her own power through the entire U. S. defense fleet which lay so becalmed that they had to have launches tow them into port. Meanwhile, Sir Thomas Lipton continued to live quietly on his yacht Erin, going ashore seldom, once to motor around Ocean Drive with Mayor Sullivan of Newport. Captain Ben Pine, owner of the fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, came...