Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With reference to Simone Weil [TIME, Oct. 1] . . . she belongs to no religious group. She belongs to the "pure in heart" who alone see God. She belongs, like Isaiah and Jesus, like Schweitzer and Kagawa and Father Damien, to the human race-she belongs...
...until now, University grants for pure research, like scholarships, have been tax-exempt. Now, however, those Research Fellows whom the Treasury thinks have completed their training and are already embarked on careers will have to pay taxes on their stipends...
...Alberta. He built new refineries in Venezuela and Kuwait, in three years boosted Gulf's Kuwait production from 23 million to 66 million bbls. annually. He boosted Gulf's world output from 160.1 million bbls. to 193.4 million, found new markets by buying up new retail outlets (Pure Oil in Pennsylvania, Sohio in Michigan, Missouri State in the Mississippi Valley). In spite of the tremendous costs, Gulf's profits have gone on rising, in 1951's first half ($63 million), passed...
...Theodore Honey, an obscure research engineer in the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Stewart plugs patiently away at an experiment to prove his calculations that the tail assembly of the Reindeer, a new transatlantic plane, will snap off from metal fatigue after 1,400 flying hours. In a trance of pure science, he is unperturbed by the fact that Reindeers already in passenger service will reach the estimated breaking point long before his laboratory proof can be ready...
From that moment on, audiences should instinctively reach for their safety belts while Hero Stewart desperately tries to convince a skeptical pilot and a pompous official hierarchy that what started as a problem in pure science has become an urgent matter of life & death...