Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sulphur has been so easy to get in the past that nobody really bothered hustling for it. As late as World War I, the U.S. had to import more than one-third of its supply. But since the early '30s, the U.S. has provided an increasing stream of pure sulphur, or "brimstone," from the rich salt domes of the Gulf coast...
...Cheap & Pure. Like many another sulphur user, Britain relied on the deposits in Texas and Louisiana for 90% of its supply. While it lasted, no one could match U.S. brimstone in price or purity. Sulphur from pyrites deposits was largely ignored, since brimstone is cheaper and easier to use. But as demand for sulphur rose to more than 150% of the peak war years, the rich Gulf coast brimstone deposits began to run out. Reserves above ground shrank from an 18 months' supply to a scant six months...
...Jamaica Inn," Laughton is an epicurcan squire who supports his expensive tastes by wrecking ships and plundering them. His finery does not smother his heartiness, and he has some rich speeches about his own good taste and the inequality of man. Content here is in the pure wonder of a brimming glass of brandy. For his associates, Laughton has only his half-lidded contemptuous glance and a derisive sneer: "there is no one like me." He was right...
...while police were trying to link the two fires, Gardner E. Lindzey, lecturer in Social Relations, suggested the theory that someone with latent pyromaniac tendencies might have been inspired to set the second fire by the publicity and attention given the first one. He added, however, that this was pure conjecture...
...university president and former scientific researcher, Conant is particularly concerned with the place of pure investigatory science in society. He argues fervently for government and industry support of pure science, which he suggests is quite continuous with applied science, the two being merely opposite ends of the same spectrum. He finds the university the logical home for pure science, for only in an atmosphere of freedom is it likely to flourish...