Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never got beyond the three Rs in school; when he was 14 he went to work for an elder brother as a potter's apprentice. On his own, he began a series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate on the potter's trade. "I saw the field was spacious," he wrote, "and the soil so good as to promise an ample recompense to anyone...
...Crimson Jayvees meet Suffolk University, who conquered the Varsity in a practice game earlier in the season, this afternoon on Soldiers Field. Langdon Clay or Roger Davis will pitch for the Harper-coached squad, although Dolph Samborski may want to use one of them against Holy Cross on Saturday. R H E Harvard 000 000 002--2 4 3 Brown...
Inspired Diplomacy. There were many battles still to be won; the struggle over Berlin was just beginning. But the U.S. seemed to be on the right track at last. The quiet refusal of General Lucius Clay to back down a fortnight ago in the face of Russian pressure was a prime example of U.S. resolution. Said a businessman in Kansas City: "Now the people of Europe know what to expect. All we need is the determination to carry through...
...chiefs in the U.S., General Clay had radioed this assurance: "We will sit tight. We will not be provocative. . . . Evacuation to me is unthinkable." At week's end several U.S. and British freight trains got through to Berlin without being challenged. And, finally, the Russians grudgingly agreed to meet with the Western Powers to "clarify" their terms, if not alter them. For a time, it appeared, there would be an uneasy truce-until the Russians probed elsewhere. Patience and firmness had paid off again...
...committee found that Kaiser-Frazer had also filtered some of Detrola's steel into the grey market. As K-F could not use some of the types it got from Detrola, K-F Vice President Clay Bedford told the committee, he made a deal with a Manhattan exporter named Charles A. Koons to sell Koons 4,000 tons of Detrola steel...