Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years immediately before the Revolution, life in the colonies became increasingly turbulent and for Copley politics and art just didn't mix. Finally, on June 10, 1774, Copley set sail for England and though he was reluctant to give up the security of his established position, his not only an escape from the political tension but also the opportunity to pursue his desire for a career in history painting...
...modern architecture today, as Mies sees it, there are two vying ten dencies: "One has a structural basis, and you may call it the more objective. The other [Le Corbusier's] has a plastic basis, which you could call emotional. You cannot mix them. Architecture is not a martini. Architecture is a language having the discipline of a grammar. Language can be used for day-to-day purposes as prose. And if you are very good, you may speak a wonderful prose. And if you are really good, you can be a poet. But it is the same language...
...maintain its vast surveillance system and uninterrupted communication with a network of planes, bases and radar stations, NORAD has installed 13 computers-each with its own job, each able to bail out any of the others in case of trouble. Those computers, with their intricate mix of sophisticated electronic aids, represent a new generation of automated information. Data from a BMEWS station in Alaska, for example, or a message from a Navy antisubmarine patrol plane, is fed into the banked computer memory drums and onto the glowing display consoles without ever passing through human hands or brains. So fast...
...amount of alcohol it contains; 100 proof means 50% alcohol by volume, the other half being distilled water, coloring and the like. "Proof" originally was a place where gunpowder was tested. Early distillers adopted the term, because they used powder to gauge the strength of liquor. They would mix a sample of newly condensed alcohol with an equal amount of gunpowder and strike a match to it. If the mixture failed to burn, the liquor was too weak; if it erupted into a violent flame, it was too strong; but if it burned with an even blue flame...
...Mix it in your little...