Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...titans of touch will meet this afternoon when an undefeated and united CRIMSON squad gurgles back at the challenging members of the "Princetonian," crusading daily from New Jersey. An unsullied, pure, clean, perfect record is at stake for the knife-witted hooligans of Plympton Street, and a mighty machine is prepared to defend it. The score should...
...holding campaign until Germany is defeated. Meantime, The Great Offensive gives a helpful explanation to readers who have pondered the U.S. Navy's tables of comparative U.S. and Japanese naval losses and wondered how Japan could keep on fighting. Max Werner takes the simple view that "pure sea power-ship v. ship-no longer means much." To the Japanese, the Pacific Ocean was merely a highway; warships were mainly vehicles for transporting the men & weapons of land-air power to the places of conquest. Thus, it will take U.S. land & air power, supported by incidental sea power, to recover...
From dried poison-ivy leaves Sergeant Shapiro concocts a unique extract which cures ivy poisoning, cause of 15 to 30% of summer and fall casualties in Southern Army posts. The dried, crushed leaves are soaked in pure alcohol until it turns an intense green. This solution is then filtered, put up in 50 cc. (1⅔ oz.) bottles and shipped to Army camps throughout the Fourth Service Command (the Southeastern...
...last is another great scientific mystery: the structure of the most powerful known chemical-biotin, a rare, growth-promoting vitamin of the B-complex group. Significance: knowledge of its structure may well lead to synthetic manufacture of biotin. So far not more than one-tenth of an ounce of pure biotin has been isolated. Cost: more than...
Hollywood has at last come across with the kind of picture everybody has been waiting for it to come across with. "Desperate Journey" which is now at the Met makes no bones about itself; it is pure, unvarnished adventure. From beginning to end, from the first bridge blown up to the last emplacement of Nazi guns reduced to a pile of rubble, it moves quickly, excitingly, and (what is the big surprise) uncornily. It never slows up, never wanders from its theme, and never becomes patriotically maudlin, as have so many of the war pictures to date...