Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...abeam the Salt Lake City (to avoid possibility of a crash), one fighting plane after another shot screaming down in power dives of attack, at speeds (250 m. p. h. and more) impossible to meet with defensive gunfire. These were followed by the "smokers," larger planes flying low to lay five-mile banks of white obscurity behind which, from nowhere on the battle line's port quarter, torpedo planes approached wing-to-water, theoretically launching torpedoes at the dreadnaughts from close astern, wheeling back through the smoke to safety when their work was done. Planes catapulted from the battleships...
...future lay largely in a debate posted for the following week, on the politically relevant, but imperially trivial matter of reducing Mr. J. H. Thomas' salary. But the question made Premier MacDonald queazy. Two former premiers were to heckle him?Conservative Stanley Baldwin leading the attack, Liberal David Lloyd George reverberating behind, and ambitious Sir Oswald Hooting in consonance...
...mark pointing to the town's airport, Pilot Ogden Maxwell Goodsell did not see it. Circling aimlessly, Pilot Goodsell spied a golfer, dropped a milkbottle bearing a scribbled note asking him to lie on the turf with his head pointing toward the airport. Golfer Hunter Y. Lea obligingly lay down. Pilot Goodsell flew straightaway to a safe landing...
...Kokomo, Ind., Mrs. V. S. Wiley found a dime copy of her $150 diamond ring in a dime store, took hers off to verify the similitude, found it so close, that unwittingly she threw her own ring into the bauble tray. It lay there four days, scorned by 5-&-10 shoppers...
...literature, were toward the satire, horselaugh and Menckenian sneer, hardly sympathetic to the earnest, didactic, creative attitude of The New Republic. Dismayed by the scene around him, Editor Croly's faiths subtly changed; his belief in progressive movements weakened, he began to feel that in individual development lay the real future of Liberalism. With the collapse of the LaFollette boom in 1925 the magazine suffered another relapse, since when it has slowly recovered a circulation of 25,000 based largely on its literary and critical ingredients...