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Word: leyden (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aviation officials see the problem not as one of conflict between two different types of flying, but of order in the skies. Said FAA official John Leyden in Washington last week: "It's not a question of private planes against the airlines. It is more a question of controlled versus uncontrolled aircraft." After San Diego, that need for control may become a priority in the nation's crowded skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What's Up In Our Crowded Skies | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...goal by Tiger Tom Leyden at 0:43 of the fourth made things queasy for eight minutes until Martin and Faught's give-and-go score at 8:40 was the tab that made Princeton give up and go home. Martin and Jim Ossyra (his third) then gave Harvard its 13th and 14th goals...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Stickmen Conquer Ivy Foe Princeton, 14-10 | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Bukovsky plans to spend a few weeks in England with British Actor David Markham, who has campaigned indefatigably for the Russian's freedom for the past six years. After that he hopes to go to Holland to study biology at the University of Leyden. "Leyden had very old ties with Russia," Bukovsky ex plained. "Peter the Great sent Russians to study there. The university mailed postcards to me in prison for my birthday and, remarkably enough, this was the only correspondence from abroad that ever got through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXILES: Vladimir's Voice | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...Cavendish, the eccentric British millionaire chemist who has been investigating the properties of hydrogen. Instead of testing what electric fish actually do, Cavendish attempted to duplicate their actions by creating an artificial ray and then passing an electric current through it from a battery of the devices known as Leyden phials. He constructed a fish out of wood, with the shock organs made of pewter, but he was dissatisfied with the results, partly because the artificial fish gave off weaker shocks when submerged under water. Cavendish's conclusion was cautious: "On the whole, I think there seems nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bz-z-z-z! | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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