Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplementing freezing with distillation by vapor compression. Sea water is pumped into a low-pressure chamber where a part of it is turned into vapor; part is frozen; the remainder passes off as a concentrated brine. The vapor is then slightly compressed. This process turns the vapor into pure water and also generates enough heat to melt the pure ice crystals...
...pure sport. People don't recognize sport unless it comes with a standard label. Some people tickle minnows; others have jeeps. Why do we do it? Every Saturday you have thousands of guys kicking themselves up a football field. In the end they're covered with mud or in a hospital. Nobody asks them why they do it. Barring other income, I have enough now so that then I get back to Montreal I'll have just enough for fare home to Australia. At the end, a football player has enough to cart himself and his bruises...
...story, everyone stands around and talks. Ray tells Maureen how his divorced wife deceived him; Maureen tells Ray why she married a rich old man, and Yvonne Furneaux explains why she joined Claude's harem ("I have known destitution"), and laments that she isn't as pure as on her confirmation...
...Maryland, as in the rest of the U.S., homeopathic practice has never been popular. Today there are only 75 "pure" homeopaths practicing in the U.S., but more than 5,000 physicians combine homeopathy with M.D. practice. Reddick has an M.D. from Hahnemann Medical College, serves as senior psychiatrist at Maryland's Eastern Shore State Hospital. But homeopathy is his chosen vocation, and three years ago he launched a homeopathic revival. As a first step, he joined the nearly defunct Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society, eventually became secretary-treasurer of both the society and the seven-man examining board, which...
...rails' $153,000-a-mile capital investments in bridges, yards, rails, for example, is needed for the freight traffic that accounts for 87% of the roads' revenue. Eliminating passenger traffic would therefore cut fixed costs by very little, but would cut out a margin of pure profit...