Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...bill to expend $144,881,902 for future dam-building, lock-building and channel-dredging last week lay on the desk of the U. S. President who answered "Engineer" to the census occupation-query and who last autumn promised his countrymen just such busy-beaverish legislation (TIME, Nov. 4). At home with this measure above all others, he signed it. Then he said: "It was with particular satisfaction that I signed the Rivers & Harbors bill as it represents the final authorization of the engineering work . . . I have advocated for over five years...
...between Cape Guancs and Cape Hicacos assembled on the shore of Matanzas Bay (60 mi. east of Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water from the ocean bottom...
...party of which he is a prominent feature, if not always a bright ornament." The Chancellor made no reply, sat white and stern as Conservatives booed, Laborites cheered and Lady Cynthia Mosley, M. P. went out for a large cushion, brought it back into the House, lay down on a bench and ostentatiously went to sleep. (Her husband, Sir Oswald, resigned from the Cabinet after quarrelling with Chancellor Snowden ? TIME, June 2.) As the bitter night wore on members of all parties sprawled and snored on their benches, awakened once by a sudden clap of thunder, roused occasionally...
Religious Groups. Although lay agencies in large measure have taken benevolence away from the churches, certain religious groups met with the National Conference of Social Work?The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the National Conference on Social Work of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, the Commissions on Social Welfare of the Universalist General Convention. Bishop Francis John McConnell (Methodist), president of the Federal Council, was a potent churchman attending. Said he: "This age is not doing much with the Ten Commandments, but it is discovering a good deal for itself...
...Lebanon, Ind., 24 years ago Joseph A. Sandlin decided on precisely how he wanted his funeral conducted. He assembled his tribe (lodge) of Red Men, lay down in his coffin to show how his body was to be placed. Photographs were made of each stage. The other day four old, rehearsed pallbearers studied the old pictures, buried provident Mr. Sandlin, 90, precisely, definitively...