Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Investigators are busily questioning newsmen and others who were on the scene, and many think it likely that the government can compile enough evidence to make arrests. When this will happen is still a matter of pure guesswork...
...rhythms of Igor Stravinsky or the pulverized harmonies of the atonalists. About Stravinsky and his experiments, Sibelius remained steadfastly unenthusiastic; the works of Arnold Schoenberg he found "unsympathetic." Speaking of his serious, sometimes forbidding style, Sibelius said: "Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure water." But as he went on his own lonely way, he took huge, enthusiastic audiences with him: no serious composer was more popular with U.S. and British audiences in the 1930s; no contemporary composer has a more secure place in the current symphonic repertory...
Like a number of the unspoken rights Americans have continued to take for granted, the right to a passport has only recently been constricted. It has nearly reached the point where it permits only the pure in heart to travel to those countries where it permits only the pure in heart to travel to those countries where a liberal does of moral DDT has been applied...
Under Silber's direction, five top seniors met two afternoons a week from 3:30 to 6. By the end of the school year, they had ground five varieties of fruit in a blender, whirled the fruit mixed with pure ethyl alcohol in a centrifuge to separate the solid matter, run the remaining solution through ion exchange columns to remove the salts, and then removed the water to isolate the pure amino acid extract. This year's group of five students will start to identify the acids. Silber pays his boys and girls 35? an hour ("enough...
When Britain first advertised the Bristol Britannia for delivery in early 1957, U.S. airmen thought they might have something to worry about. Until Boeing and Douglas pure jetliners were ready to fly in 1959, British Overseas Airways Corp.'s big (93 passengers), fast (385 m.p.h.) turboprop plane seemed a likely cream-skimmer in the lush transatlantic trade. But once again Britain's state-dominated aircraft industry managed to pluck defeat from victory. Nine months late, Bristol last week finally rolled out the first of 18 Britannia 312s for BOAC amid a chorus of complaints about the plane...