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Word: virginity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away the most intelligent beasts on earth. Last week Dr. Lilly, 44, was hard at work supervising an elaborate new system of jetties and pools that he is constructing, partly with money supplied by the Navy, on a bay six miles from Charlotte Amalie, in the Virgin Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dolphin Talk | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...When the Virgin Islands installation is complete. Dr. Lilly and his helpers will spend long hours playing with the amiable dolphins and trying to converse with them. The Navy's interest in the project is in basic research; it wants to know everything possible about the sea. including the ways that sea creatures communicate. "After all," says Dr. Sid Caller of the Office of Naval Research, "submarines and frogmen are but poor replicas, hydrodynamically speaking, of what a dolphin does naturally." For instance, by swinging their heads from side to side, and uttering ultrasonic boops, dolphins can "look" through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dolphin Talk | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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