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Word: dau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute and financed by the Western Oil & Gas Association. Said S.R.I.'s Paul L. Magill: elemental sulphur (i.e., not in compounds) might be to blame for eye irritation. So might some aldehydes. Another theory offered to the chemists: organic peroxides might be the tear-jerking villains. Dr. Lucien Dau-trebande, a Belgian smog expert, also working at S.R.I, with Oil & Gas funds, said that an eye irritant would be at least twice as irritating if suspended in oil droplets. And there was no doubt that Los Angeles' smog contained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Airborne Dump | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Auden's lecture, entitled "The Ironic Here," dealt with the problems facing Cervautes when he portrayed, in "Dau Quixote," a truly Christian here in the epic tradition. Auden, recently described by one critic as "the most intelligent poet writing in English today," approached the subject in the manner of a creative artist, not by critical analysis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Auden Delivers Poet's Views of Don Quixote | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

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