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Word: clay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brandeis guards Gary Clay and Kevin McCann sparked the Judges' offense in the opening minutes of the second half, but Harvard co-captain Bob Allen, who played center last night, soon shut down a tiring Lock, and Brandeis lost its inside threat...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Crimson Cagers Dump Brandeis, 95-80; Sloppy Play Dominates Harvard Victory | 12/13/1979 | See Source »

Weissbecker met yesterday with House committee members to discuss the proposed transfer. "He gave us all no's about changing the decision," Clay N. Squire '80, vice president of the House committee, said last night at the meeting...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Winthrop Votes Boycott, Protests Manager Switch | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...Speech Pathologist Anne Koeneke, who was assigned to Ginny, meanwhile began to use "play situations" to build up the twins' limited English. The girls could not easily arrange syllables into understandable words. They spewed out what English words they had with a machine gunlike rapidity. Given modeling clay (which they pretended was potato salad), kitchen implements, dolls and dollhouses, the twins would play and the speech pathologists would ask questions. Where should the doll go? "Inhouse," Gracie might answer. "Oh, in the house," Romain would reply slowly. Single words were expanded to phrases, phrases to sentences. Romain and Koeneke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ginny and Gracie Go to School | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...intervals. At week's end, however, the plan had to be scrapped, when it was discovered that the first 5,000 refugees were too exhausted or too ill to walk the seven miles to the camp. Thai soldiers escorted the Cambodians half a mile to a red-clay highway, where buses and trucks, equipped with mattresses for the sick, were waiting to take them to Khao I Dang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Pol Pot's Lifeless Zombies | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Like the miners of the Klondike, the ancient artisans obtained much of their gold by panning. They also dug shafts into the ground and even set fire to hillsides to expose the gold-bearing soil. Smelting was done in small clay crucibles. Some objects, like the breastplates made in the Calima region of southwestern Colombia, were hammered into shape on stone anvils with instruments made of iron found in meteorites. To prevent the gold from becoming brittle and breaking while it was being worked, the goldsmiths annealed it-heating it and quenching it rapidly in water. For joining different pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Glimpse of El Dorado | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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