Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth, Bakelite--whose more chemically formal name is polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride--was just a harbinger of the age of plastics. Since Bakelite's heyday, researchers have churned out a polysyllabic catalog of plastics: polymethylmethacrylate (Plexiglas), polyesters, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC, a.k.a. vinyl), polyhexamethylene adipamide (the original nylon polymer), polytetraperfluoroethylene (Teflon), polyurethane, poly- this, poly-that...
...know from the moment you open the Tractatus that it is something special. Each left-hand page is in German, facing its English translation on the right, and the sentences are numbered, using a hierarchical system that tells you this is a formal proof. The book begins straightforwardly enough: "1. The world is everything that is the case." (In German, it makes a memorable rhyming couplet: Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.) And it ends with an ending to end all endings: "7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent...
Since last year's tests, both Pakistan and India have discussed signing the United Nations' (UN) Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. While no formal agreement has been made, Khokar said his government is committed to signing the treaty before it goes into effect in September...
...athletic talent is much appreciated at Harvard. But Schutt doesn't pay much attention to formal accolades. Does she remember receiving her All-Ivy lacrosse award...
...athletic talent is much appreciated at Harvard. But Schutt doesn't pay much attention to formal accolades. Does she remember receiving her All-Ivy lacrosse award...