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Word: layed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cool, clear night last November a gleaming Atlas-Centaur rocket sat ready on its floodlit launch pad at Cape Kennedy. Perched atop the silver booster, the High Energy Astronomical Observatory-2 (HEAO-2), the most ambitious and advanced astrophysics research probe ever, lay shrouded in protective covering...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: 'Einstein Observatory' Blasts Off | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...start off, they shortened from two years to just four months the time that it usually takes females to mate, lay eggs and hatch their young. How? By cleverly manipulating water temperatures and light exposures within the blockhouses, so the lobsters were duped into thinking they had passed through two full years of seasonal changes when only one-sixth that time had elapsed. Also, because their eggs were released into a controlled environment, free of predators, the survival rate among infants increased to 95%. In addition, by hiking water temperatures to 22° C (72° F), the scientists caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lobster Bodega | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Bereft of his old band the Velvet Underground, his "rock and roll animal" stage mask, and now even his voice, credibility is about all Lou Reed can lay claim to today. His recent studio albums have each shed a successive layer of his personality-on Coney Island Baby, he sang "I want to play football for the coach"; on Street Hasslehe sang "I want to be black"; on The Bells, nothing is left but his ashen, wasted face...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Notes from Underground? | 5/23/1979 | See Source »

...series of asides with separate ministers, Thatcher worked long hours in her study on the Queen's Speech. To be delivered at the official opening of the new Parliament early this week by Elizabeth II, in ermine robe and crown, the speech from the Throne is supposed to lay down the whole tone and framework of the new government's policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Maggie Gets A for Action | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...broke away from British domination and became an independent country, scientists found similar specimens. The fossils were poorly preserved, but they seemed to represent two slightly differing kinds of primates that were named Pondaungia and Amphipithecus, and their discovery persuaded some anthropologists that the roots of the higher primates lay in Asia. Of the new fragments, all but one have been matched with the original finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Asian Roots? | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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