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Word: purees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is no need to repeat the arguments against book censorship: they are well-known. And Fox's fears that little children are going to wander into the library and pick up the Communist Manifesto or even the New World Review, thinking them the same as Crime Comics, is pure hogwash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Change Gimmicks | 10/3/1952 | See Source »

Bruch: G Minor Concerto (Zino Francescatti; Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos; Columbia). Every violinist gets around to this one sooner or later; Francescatti warms it up with Latin fire. Jascha Heifetz also plays it (for Victor) with simon-pure tone and biting emphasis, but his interpretation is icy cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

Geologists say that coal has the property of extracting germanium from water or gases that come in contact with it. For this reason, the top and bottom six inches of the seam generally contain the most germanium. Since the pure metal sells for about $350 a pound, a strike of rich germanium-coal would prove valuable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Wrinkles | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...year-old daughter. She is, by her own description, a middle-class mamma who "wears cotton shirts and blue jeans to everything but weddings, christenings and funerals." She turns a deaf ear to the clang of falling shekels. Being well-to-do has convinced her that The Dream is pure nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God & Mammon | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...Alien Corn. In Glasgow, Scotland, the prosecutor winced and told the judge what Joseph McNelis had been selling as "pure Scotch": one part Highland dew, three parts Danish whisky, and a little brandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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