Word: ir
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...current biographers believe, is literally "a fallen angel," a pure spirit without a body who tempts man to sin. He is not the principle of Evil, since Evil is itself a negative quality, i.e., merely the lack of Good in God's imperfect creatures. As French Historian Henri-Irénée Marrou explains it, it is like the holes in a sponge. "Evil," he continues, "is something that need not have existed ... It reveals in all its depth and ambivalence the mystery of liberty . . . Satan, an angel, is the free being who first chose to move away...
HARVARD: Pildner, g; Janeway, rfb; Young, ifb; Szaraz, rhb; Haegler, chb; Jobbins, ihb; Yeomans or Cowperthwaite, ir; Toro, cf; Blumenfeld, il; Fransioli...
Only two other men not of Du Pont blood and name have held that job since 1802, when Eleuthèree Irénée du Pont founded the company...
...Brandywine's Banks. Eleuthèree Irénée du Pont de Nemours was a young Frenchman* who had studied gunpowder-making under France's great chemist Lavoisier, had become inspector general of commerce under King Louis XVI. When revolutionary mobs stormed the Tuileries in 1791, Irénée and Papa Pierre led 60 volunteers who defended the King until only they and six others were left alive. They escaped, later sailed to the U.S. There, young Irénée, amazed at the high price and low quality of gunpowder, raised...
...Montgomery Evans II of Greenwich, Conn., who has written two books on book-collecting and travel and is looking for a publisher. * In France, the name Du Pont is nearly as common as Smith in the U.S. To identify his branch, Irénée's father, Pierre, added "Nemours," the locality where he owned a country estate. *Pierre died from exhaustion in 1817 after fighting a fire all night; Irénée's wife was permanently injured in a blast that killed 36 workmen in 1818; Lammot du Pont, father of the brothers Pierre...