Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retribution is pure emotion, in no way useful or just to the murdered, his family, or the murderer. The force of the deterrent argument is diminished by the fact that the greater majority of executions are conducted in secret, and with the exception of those few convicted after sensational court trials, newspapers seldom even report such occurrences. Statistics also prove that states with stringent punishments for capital crimes have as high a crime rate as states with no death penalty. Karl Scheuessler in Deterrent Influences of the Death Penalty concludes that "case studies consistently reveal that the murderer seldom considers...
...Dearborn, a new $80 million Engineering & Research Laboratory was opened, giving Ford its first research facilities as up-to-date as G.M.'s. In it, hundreds of scientists and engineers will not only seek ways to improve cars, but will work on pure research. ¶ A new Continental is tentatively scheduled for 1956 to try to recapture the prestige of the old Lincoln Continental, which many automobile buffs still consider the best-looking U.S. car ever made. ¶A new hard-top convertible, the Syrtis, is also scheduled for '56. Its metal top slides into the luggage compartment...
...Carothers Chair in pure research is financed annually by the Du Pont Corporation. An outsider is invited here to take the regular place of the Carothers Professors. Bartlett, whose year as chairman ends this spring, will be free of all administrative and teaching duties, and will devote full time to his research group. E. Bright Wilson will become chairman...
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt addressed them as "fellow immigrants," 'the Daughters of the American Revolution have been running, stumbling and crawling to recapture lost dignity. Their goal; pure "Americanism." In this field they have no peers, with the possible exception of the Colonial Dames who came off the boat a few years before the Revolution. But the DAR is heavily populated, 174,000 this year, and makes up in intensity what it lacks in tradition...
...performance by a small chorus under Hewitt Pantalconi adhered admirably to this spirit. There was little difference in tempo between the movements; the dynamic modulations were of the most discreet and tasteful sort. The singers' pure tone and accurate intonation were not, as is often done, made ends in themselves thus necessitating an unbearably slow tempo. If anything, the tempo seemed at times rushed; yet this was a small price to pay for the clean delineation of interweaving vocal lines and logical enunciation of phrase patterns which resulted...