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Word: purees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those clichés: "bounding score," "tone of pure gold," "polished performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Part of this attitude may well stem from pure Hopalongishness-a state of mind which has caused Boyd to cease all personal appearances at which his "friends" are charged an admission. But part of it is shrewd business practice. Boyd has no illusions that his popularity can continue at its present rate and he hopes to convert Hoppy from a television idol into a brand name before the roof falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...night they let parties go well beyond the deadline for women, until the campus cop assigned to the College gets around to the rooms and breaks the parties up. The matters feel it is more important to educate the inmates of their Colleges socially than to keep the Colleges pure. They usually serve purchase at College functions that have a little more than the fruit juice combinations generally dispensed at House dances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Colleges Outclass Houses as Social Centers | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...ridiculous complaint by a College section man, reported n Monday's CRIMSON, that Professor Robert Amory Jr. is guilty of "unfair solicitation of votes" because he wrote letters on Law School stationery, strikes me as a pure example of nonsensical partisanship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Amory's Stationery... | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

...Voltaire's. The brief poetical passages in John Bull's Other Island are the poorest sentimentality; even the saintly figure of Father Keegan in that play occasionally arouses shyness. In St. Joan the pathos is commonplace and the mysticism embarrassing. Shaw hardly goes deeper than the sentiment-pure though it is with the curious Irish purity-of the philanderer; and philanderers of either sex make the mistake of crediting the opposite sex with their own characteristics. Shaw's lovers do not test each other's hearts, but only their wills. They are adroit in the campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: G.B.S.: 1856-1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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