Sentence examples for clay records from inspiring English sources

Minoan and Mycenaean archivists in ancient Crete and Greece used perishable temporary clay records that were preserved by unintentional baking in the conflagrations that destroyed their storerooms.

George D. Prentice, in his biography of Clay, records that some of Clay's allies in the House refused to vote for him for Speaker of the House so that Clay would remain on the chamber floor, from whence he was better able to counter Marshall.

Even Djokovic listed the facts against him — Nadal's supremacy on clay courts, his clay record against Djokovic.

Archaeologists have unearthed Babylonian tablets of sun-dried clay recording obligations incurred in the third millennium before Christ.

For the next 3 days, he went back and checked them to see whether the soft clay recorded evidence of attacks by birds.

Unit 2, dated between the Neolithic and the Etruscan age (ca. 5000 2000 yr BP), is composed of swamp clays and silty clays recording lagoon infilling due to Arno Delta progradation.

Mr. Klein introduces the syndicate of white Louisville businessmen who sponsored -- or, as more than one of them puts it, owned -- young Cassius Clay and records their disappointment at his perceived ingratitude.

The racket was banned several weeks later, after Ilie Nastase used it to thrash Vilas at a tournament in France, ending the Argentine's record 53-match winning streak on clay (the record stood until it was broken by Nadal in 2006).

Until losing to Federer two years ago in Hamburg, Nadal had a streak of 81 victories on clay, a record that took on such a life of its own that people around Nadal felt a certain relief when the streak ended).

During drilling, variations in basic lithology (sand, silt, or clay) were recorded on the basis of the borehole washings.

The X-Ray diffraction pattern of the clay was recorded by X'Pert PRO MPD working on monochromatic radiation Copper Kα1 (1.5406 Å).