Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hostile crowd of some 300 shopkeepers in slippers and aprons. "Get out of here," yelled the mob. The inspectors left. Pierre Poujade had found his cause. Poujade wrote later: "It was David against Goliath. It was justice against the inquisition. It was liberty on the march. It was the pure French tradition...
...whatever, but Mendacium or Falsum. Think of a parallel phrase, such as, "Democracy or Committed Men." Does one exclude the other? Mr. Arnold implies that to be devoted to Truth means you cannot commit yourself to any particular claims to truth. Yet, Truth is not some pure Essence existing (and accessible) out-of-relation to particular instances of it. You have to decide whether this or that concrete thing is true or not. There is, of course, no guarantee that every decision you will make will be the right one. Yet, you cannot help but make such decisions. The scholar...
...experts are not sure what the spaceship's atmosphere should be made of. Pure oxygen might be all right if its pressure were low enough (at atmospheric pressure, it is poisonous), but nitrogen also may be necessary for human health. In any case, the pressure in the spaceship should not be too low. If a meteor punctured the skin, a good thick atmosphere of oxygen diluted with nitrogen or helium would not be lost as quickly as a thin one of oxygen alone...
Next day the test match continued, and Idris Beg faithfully turned up-with his arm in a sling-to umpire. Marylebone men blithely dismissed the night's adventure: "Just banter, old boy. Pure banter." But Pakistani students paraded in the streets shouting, "M.C.C., go back! Long live Idris Beg!" Police searched spectators for weapons, and stood guard over the visiting Englishmen during play...
...JETLINER will be designed by Convair as competition for Lockheed's turboprop Electra. A four-jet, 580-m.p.h. aircraft powered by General Electric J-79 engines, Convair's pure jet will be smaller than the 125-passenger Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 707, will aim at medium-range (up to 2,000 miles) routes. Projected delivery date: sometime...