Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girard said no, and went back to his seat. Judge Kawachi recalled him to the stand. "You have nothing to say? Can you point out facts in the charge that you do not think are correct?" Girard conferred with his Japanese attorney, Itsuro Hayashi, replied: "... It was a pure accident as far as I'm concerned, and I'm sorry about...
...Balmain's long, shapeless tubular evening dresses which 'engage the feet.' Also, his pure-white ermine skirt with a sweeping train-these sweeping things help, since there is a servant shortage...
...contender. Shy by nature, wary of her turbulent success, the champ was a closemouthed subject for Reporter Serrell Hillman, dropped her guard only when Hillman spent a week at her side, trailed her to Chicago for the Clay Courts championship and scoured the suburbs for a supply of the pure honey she takes for prematch energy. Althea eventually gave Hillman the inside story of the life and hard times of a Negro tennis champion. See SPORT, That Gibson Girl...
Food Faddists. In women's magazines appeared ads from Corn Products Refining Co. praising "golden-light" Mazola salad-and-cooking oil as "pure corn oil . . . not hydrogenated, unsaturated, nutritionally unexcelled." In medical journals, Corn Products sharpened its attack, invited doctors to write in for a free booklet, "Vegetable Oils in Nutrition." stressing reports on the connection of undesirable fats and heart disease. "Evidence is accumulating," said the ad, "that quality of the dietary fat may be more important than quantity...
Died. Irving Langmuir, 76, first U.S. industrial chemist to win (1932) the Nobel Prize, prolific experimenter in what he called the "borderland of chemistry and physics," a "pure research" staffer at General Electric Co.'s research lab for 41 years, and a pioneer rainmaker; of a coronary thrombosis; in Falmouth, Mass. Langmuir once said: "Whatever work I've done, I've done for the fun of it." His fun included such breakthrough inventions as the gas-filled light bulb and the high-vacuum power tube (the heart of modern radio and TV broadcasting...