Word: dau
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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...
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...