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Word: layings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Marvin Alvey came to his senses slowly. He sat up, dizzily, discovered that his face was caked with blood, and that his left ankle was broken and swollen. He was cold. The wall of a mountain canyon rose above him, and a red airplane lay smashed on the rocks beside him. He began to remember what had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WYOMING: Vigil | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...purpose of West Point, therefore, is not to act as a glorified drill sergeant, but to lay the foundation upon which a career in growth of military knowledge can be based, and to accompany it by two indispensable additions; first, such a general education as educated men find necessary for intelligent intercourse with one another; and second, inculcations of a set of virtues, admirable always, out indispensable in a soldier. Men may be inexact or even untruthful in ordinary matters and suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates or the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: West Point Builds on Past Tradition | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...direction of the Soviet zone. But when he saw a second U.S. jeep pull up, he ducked behind a tree, raised his rifle and fired four quick shots. German and U.S. police flung themselves behind the parked cars; the Russian slipped away. A German policeman, wounded in the leg, lay on his back before Frau Lehrte's house. Germans clustered around him and stared at the Russian's abandoned motorcycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Incident at the Widow Lehrte's | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...West's watch on the Rhine was far from firmly established; ahead lay much disagreement and bickering of the kind foreshadowed by De Gaulle's statement and the French government's hesitation. Nevertheless, bickering about Western Union was better than no Western Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Watch on the Rhine | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Nobody seems to know how often a male mosquito can mate. Perhaps he can mate only once, or at most a few times. If so, a sharp reduction (by siren song) of the number of males in a swamp will condemn most of the females to spinsterhood. They will lay unfertilized eggs and the next mosquito generation will be too sparse to distribute much malaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Siren's Song | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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