Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pure vanity is not the only motive that sends people running to the plastic surgeon. Often it's a matter of cold business. Apton cites case after case (but without mentioning names), e.g., actresses who were able to go on playing youthful roles after face lifting, while others of the same age, with unlifted faces, got only middle-aged parts or none at all; a pediatrician who had a port-wine birthmark removed from his face because it scared the kiddies; a rabbit-eared radio announcer who had to have an operation to get a job on television...
Princeton puts more emphasis on each boy's being "well-rounded" as an individual than Harvard does. As Craig says "We look the boys over as persons, not as part of a college-wide balance system. We prefer that a boy have other qualities in addition to pure scholarship...
...York police arrested 55-year-old Mrs. Beatrice Kam for possession of narcotics, and then jailed her son, Herbert, 33, despite her protests. "Herbert," said his mother, "is a good son. He never brought me anything but the pure stuff...
...striving, will carry him higher & higher, convert him into superman. Shaw's Heaven, far from being a blissful goal, would seem a mere way station on the road to perfection-as his Life Force, magnificent so long as it is an evolutionary process, would seem to end as pure intelligence functioning in an utter void...
...scientists dissolved a little ferrous sulphate and carbon dioxide in pure water, enclosed it in a specially designed glass cell, and exposed it to a high-energy helium ion beam from a cyclotron. Analysis showed that a little of the carbon dioxide combined with water to produce formic acid and formaldehyde. Scientists have long known that solutions of formaldehyde sometimes turn into sugar...