Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uranium laboratory. The time: early 1942, when the world's total uranium metal supply was measured in grams and ounces. The action began with an urgent telephoned question from Dr. Arthur H. Compton's mysterious Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago: "How soon can you supply three tons of pure uranium?" Westinghouse's practical answer is a drama that has just been made public...
...Pure English, Just Refined. I. A. Richards first became hipped on the idea of Basic 22 years ago when he collaborated with its inventor, Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow scholar at the University of Cambridge, on a tortuous book on semantics, called The Meaning of Meaning. Since then he has spent a good deal of time globe-trotting as Basic's chief agitator, wearing the benign smile of a zealot who is content with his life's work. When war broke out, he was at Harvard on a Rockefeller grant as a roving researcher on the problems...
...people who offend Richards most are those who think Basic is a sort of pidgin English. Actually it is pure English, boiled down to a vocabulary of 18 verbs,* 85 "structure words" (prepositions, conjunctions, etc.), 600 nouns, 150 adjectives...
This help for small businessmen on the part of Alcoa and Dow Chemical was not all pure altruism. They were both uncomfortably aware of the $1 billion in U.S.-owned aluminum and magnesium plants, and, in particular, the talk of government subsidies to keep the aluminum plants competing with Alcoa. To Alcoa's mind this talk could best be silenced by creating a demand big enough to use all the metal the plants could turn out. It could turn the trick, if it could find a few hundred gadgets like its clothespin...
Said he: "Pure water should be the first requirement of a community. I think it would pay in the end to clean up. It is economically wise to make a better community." He appointed new receivers, who agreed to fix up the wells and the sewage. The miners were expected to go back to work. Dr. Betty is already...