Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slight damages, all of which will be repaired within 60 days. So that by December 1, Miami will be able to take care of a large number of winter visitors with her usual comfort and convenience. The stores are open, the gas supply is normal, there is plenty of pure fresh water and electric lights shine at night. Normal shipping activities have been resumed...
...Party; 2) Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissars (i. e. "Premier"). 3) B. B. Quibe-schev, successor to the late Felix E. Dzerzhinsky (TIME, Aug. 2) as chairman of the Supreme Economic Council. The settled policy of these men is to transform the "pure" Communist state, as conceived by Lenin, into a regime in which modified capitalism is recognized but kept subservient to the state. Secretary General Stalin and his henchmen are thus "Communist heretics." Their political creed is the "NEP" ("New Economic Policy"). Daily Life. The Communist regime has now attained a complete...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst College, has reentered the journalistic spotlight by making the statement that democracy is a delusion, a gospel and a venture, in that it treats people as if they were intelligent, kind, pure, high, generous and sweet. They are nothing of the sort, says Professor Meiklejohn. Since he is evidently referring to American democracy, it must be inferred that the people mentioned are members of the American public...
...Kioto" means "capital," and for nearly eleven centuries Kioto was the capital of Japan. Laid out with mathematical precision 'in 793 by the Emperor Kwammu, the city is still replete with gorgeous temples and handsome public buildings. The city's remarkably pure water supply has made it the chief Japanese city for bleaching and dyeing cloth...
...journey from the fort. . . . It was a rainy afternoon. . . . Suddenly Mr. Marshall burst into the room, he was soaking wet. . . . a piece of cotton from his pocket ... a lump of yellowish metal. . . . Then I read an article in the Encyclopedia Americana. I told Marshall then that his metal was pure gold in the virgin state. . . ." But the news...