Word: sur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking more striking than she had in her 50s, she was swimming exercise laps at the Ritz Hotel, a few blocks from her embassy residence, when she fell ill and collapsed. Two days later, surrounded by family, she died at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine without regaining consciousness...
...went to the big card catalogue in Widener. Sure enough, there was what I'd been looking for: Lebesgue, H., Lecons sur l'Integration, a set of lectures directed at the very question I'd been asking myself. Lebesgue approached the question historically. He began by explaining how Archimedes, in the third century B.C., had been led to invent integration. Then he explained why 17th-century mathematicians had been forced to improve Archimedes' definition and what had led their successors to invent further improvements and generalizations. Now, finally, I understood the Lebesgue integral. More important, I had discovered that...
Though it takes on the dimensions of a 19th-century adventure and a love story, the French film "Le hussard sur le toit (The horseman on the roof)" ultimately doesn't succeed as either. Attempting to put new a "psychological" spin on old themes, yet still clinging to elements of an oddly oldfashioned romanticism, it may leave you wondering what you're supposed to feel. As a result, it left this viewer feeling very little...
...SECTION OF LETTERS DEALING WITH the French nuclear tests included one that was mistakenly attributed to Nicolas Nolf of Grenoble, France [LETTERS, Oct. 9]. It was written by Sylvie Moscatelli of Vaux sur Mer, France...
...been there. I've spent a career there. I don't see the future there." The French have decided not even to bother trying to break the 20,000 ft. barrier--the range of their deepest-diving submersible, the three-person Nautile. Says Jean Jarry, director of the Toulon-sur-Mer research center of ifremer, France's national oceanographic institute: "We think that's a good depth because it covers 97% of the ocean. To go beyond that is not very interesting and is very expensive...