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Word: laid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Having laid these things, as an old Nurse and Trainer, before you ... I will gladly see the young lady whenever we can make an appointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Knowing Age | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...fish of the Columbia have been affected by this phenomenon. Although the radioactive stuff does not seem to hurt them much, they become radioactive enough to "take their own pictures." When a "hot" fish caught near Hanford is laid overnight on a photographic plate, it leaves an impression showing its bones, gills and head glands where the radioactivity has concentrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Pure Savannah | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...They laid out the charts before Valentine and Price Boss Michael DiSalle and came away from their meeting feeling that they had convinced DiSalle that a price increase was justified. Thus, they were flabbergasted when Valentine ordered them to roll back their prices, a move DiSalle did not agree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Stalled Autos | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...Budapest monthly Muvelt Nep (Cultured People) laid out for its readers the Hungarian Communist line on dancing. The waltz and polka are "traditionally democratic." The tango, fox trot and English waltz, though "reflections of the capitalist decline . . . cannot be classed with American dances. They may now be danced with taste." But the samba, swing, boogie-woogie, rumba, conga and the like "are tools of aggression let loose by the bosses of America against human culture and progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Lockstep | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...American take of the world's raw materials (about 50% of the total) might have to be cut. Last week at their Washington meetings Truman and Attlee laid the groundwork for an end to catch-as-catch-can buying (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Best guess was that a group similar to the Combined Raw Materials Board of World War II would be set up to make sure that the raw materials of the West went where they were most needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: Grab Bag | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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