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DuPont
[ doo-pont, dyoo-, doo-pont, dyoo-; French dy-pawn ]
noun
- E·leu·thère I·ré·née [e-l, œ, -, ter, ee-, r, ey-, ney], 1771–1834, U.S. industrialist, born in France.
- Pierre Sam·u·el [pee-, air, , sam, -yoo-, uh, l, pye, r, s, a, -m, y, -, el], 1739–1817, French economist and statesman (father of Eleuthère Irénée).
- Samuel Francis, 1803–65, Union admiral in the U.S. Civil War.
Example Sentences
It was designed in the late 1950s for DuPont by scientist Wilfred Sweeney, and DuPont has manufactured Nomex commercially for a little over half a century.
Indeed, several pandemic-related stocks, such as Pfizer, DuPont, and Caesars Holdings, figure in his trades.
It is also buying Haddington Dynamics, a small company based in Las Vegas that makes a sophisticated robotic arm for customers including DuPont and NASA, for $25 million in cash and stock.
DuPont showed its version of the future at the Design Engineering show in Chicago, circa 1984.
Nylon, for instance, was created by DuPont in 1935, and became available to the public in 1940.
The panel unanimously affirmed a jury verdict in favor of DuPont in 2011.
In 2009, Delaware Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden ordered probation, not prison, for unemployed DuPont heir Robert Richards IV.
A DuPont family scion was convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter but received no jail time.
For a different pace, another great option is Russia House in upper Dupont.
Proving that Russian food is more than borscht, Mari Vanna in Dupont is cozy and offers hearty food that will fill you right up.
He plays beautifully, and was trained in the famous Brussels conservatory, of which Dupont is the head.
But in spite of this, Napoleon never treated him as he treated Dupont and the other unfortunate generals.
But he kept his head, and at once turned about to try and break back and join Dupont, who he knew would hurry to his support.
Darkness fell, but still the fight continued, and at last Dupont's guns were heard at the other side of the gorge.
Mark told the full particulars of Dupont's death, and how in his dying moments he had committed the dispatches to him.
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