title: The Notebooks of Simone Weil
author:  Simone Weil 
description: Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a French philosopher, activist and thinker and one of the defining intellectual figures of the twentieth century.
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  Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin
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  https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofbusiOOshan
  
  
  DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  
  
  This dictionary is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Helen Weil,
  whose inspiration made it possible.
  
  
  The author gratefully acknowledges the contributions of his wife, Mary Alice
  DeBeer and his brother, Matt DeBeer, without whose countless hours of generous
  assistance this dictionary would never have been completed.
  
  
  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  This bilingual legal and busine