Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With awe I read of Piet Mondrian's supreme effort-when he painted a canvas composed of a white background with two black lines. One can only regret that he did not live long enough to attain the ultimate-the virgin canvas untouched by brush...
...probably underlain with a thick common bed of rich oil-bearing formations, forming a vast new oil domain, where a wildcatter could spend a lifetime drilling and not exhaust the chances of a new find. Said Phillips' divisional manager, D. L. Potter: "This opens up a virgin wilderness of vast potential...
...going into a huge system of social-and economic welfare enterprises. Schools, hospitals, roads and public works have sprung up everywhere. Rows of spanking new houses in cheerful pink, yellow and chartreuse have arisen to take the place of drab thatched huts. Massive U.S.-built earth movers plow into virgin forest, making way for new highways. A new $2,000,000 mosque, the first in Islam to boast an elevator, stands in the heart of Brunei town, the nation's capital (and only) city...
...interests. In the army there are still many activists who experienced a breakdown of faith after the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party and who are in the throes of a spiritual struggle. But how long can a Communist live as a moral wreck or as an offended virgin? A soldier who observes discipline by fear is good for parades, but we cannot make war with such soldiers." In other words, unless the commissars could talk the soldiers into a greater enthusiasm for a workers' paradise, not even the general could be sure which way. in case...
Life Strength. Bearing a Greek first name ("life strength"), Behn came out of the Virgin Islands, son of a Danish father and French mother, began in 1898 as a $3-a-week bank clerk in New York. With his brother Hernand he ran a small sugar brokerage house in Puerto Rico, in 1914 launched his real career by buying a tiny telephone company. When Sosthenes returned from World War I as a U.S. lieutenant colonel (with a Distinguished Service Medal), the brothers Behn issued 50,000 shares of common stock at $68.50 a share, founded...