Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without intending to minimize the danger of tampering with the detonator unit in surplus I.F.F. radio devices [TIME, March 28], I recall vividly the explosion of such a set as I was about to lay hands upon it in the tail of an A26 bomber, late...
Network men and members of the maintenance department had to lay over a half mile of cable from Weld Hall to Conant through ducts and steam tunnels to bring the three dorms within range of WHRV...
...moving of the transmitter was a "truly epic operation," according to D. Benton Minnich '51, Network wire chief. Since only a steam trench connects Claverly to Apley Hall, it was not possible to lay the tape by hand through this stretch as is done in steam tunnels. Hence a pipe had to be jammed through the trench, and the tape forced through the pipe...
...increase output by 10% to 15% without longer working hours or new equipment. Impressed, the French government planned to set up a "national center of productivity," to send 1,500 executives, engineers and workers to study methods in the U.S. (the Communists had so far blocked these plans). Ahead lay other plans for reorientation of France's economy-fewer vineyards and more wheatfields, heavy machinery instead of perfumes and fancy handbags...
Most of what the 21st annual awards told of the state of the cinema in 1948 lay in the presentation shindig itself. Planned in Hollywood's new economy, the affair was low-budgeted and undersized compared to past performances of the town's most profitable yearly publicity stunt. Only two searchlights cut into the overcast outside the theater; half a dozen blocks away, three Hollywood searchlights blazed gaudily for the opening of a new self-service gas station...