Word: pascal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave Nicky alone with those sharpers! He never could do anything without me. Besides, I doubt if you know what it's like to be a ghost: le silence éternel de ces espaces in finis m'effraie-the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. Pascal said that, you know. Not bad for a man who had never been liquidated. And then," the Tsarina added, "Stalin overran Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania...
Hollywood liked the seamless bowls so much that Paddock, pool-purveyor to cinemoguls since 1922, hired Ilsley as a consultant. When Pascal Paddock, company president, decided to sell in 1939, Ilsley bought him out for a mere $17,000. During the war, Ilsley built pools and water tanks for the Army & Navy, thus was ready to dive back into private pools at war's end. Now he produces about one custom-made pool a day (average cost: about $10,000), paid himself $41,000 last year in salary and bonuses. The company netted $59,730. With the People...
...prolific mothers, a Mrs. Fitzgerald, paid impartial homage to statesmanship by calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters...
...been enjoyed-and most of the fine films have been made-by a small group of artists, "The Independents." There are four sets of Independents: The Archers, the Cineguild, Individual Productions, and Wessex Productions. Two Cities Films, Ltd. and occasional guest artists such as Laurence Olivier, Gabriel Pascal or Carol Reed (Odd Man Out) also do fine work...
...theology be theology! We have made everything of it except just that. Theology is the coherent, systematic study of God and divine things. . . . Somehow modern theology will have to find the road back to the God of the Scriptures, the God of whom Pascal in his spiritual autobiography is reported to have exclaimed in the night of his conversion: 'God! the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! The God of Jesus Christ! Not the God of the philosophers and the scholars...