Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crop of good solo voices, Marko Rothmuller, as Jesus, sang with a dignity and dramatic awareness occasionally spoiled by a bovine tone. David Lloyd's tenor was magnificent in the part of the Evangelist, and Adele Addison's soprano had an exquisitely pure tone...
Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, has used the popular slogan, '99 and 44-100 percent pure--it floats," since the '20's to illustrate how irrationally people think. "After all," he argues, "no one knows what the other 56-100ths percent is. It may be ground glass...
...known exactly what plan Truman will choose, or when he will make his decision. It is probable, however, that he will not act until Congress finishes its draft bills and sends them to the White House. His delay would be partly out of courtesy to the legislators, partly pure political acumen: to defer men while Congress is still debating the necessity of drafting them would hardly be wise...
...Mauser's popular diet book, Look Younger, Live Longer, in which the fashionable dietician touts his perfect health menus of wheat germ, yogurt, brewer's yeast and blackstrap molasses. The food men, taking a dyspeptic view of the perfect-health approach, charged that Hauser was violating the pure food laws, particularly with his claim that blackstrap would prevent menopausal difficulties, constipation, heart trouble, neuritis, also induce sleep and help grow hair...
...grit. He thought others, e.g., fellow Republicans T.R., "Old Bob" La Follette and George Norris, were deadly wrong when they roared against the trusts and the tariffs. America is a hell of a success, Uncle Joe insisted, and why tamper with it? With the single-minded devotion of the pure in heart, he stacked the membership of the House's 60-odd committees, awarded key chairmanships to his cohorts to make sure that nobody did tamper...