Word: purely
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Bigger in area than the U.S., Brazil has a population of more than 40,000,000, of whom 1,000,000 are of pure German stock and 2,000,000 of Italian. Its small conscript army, recently expanded with U.S. technical assistance, numbers little more than 100,000 men, with an estimated 300,000 in reserve-just about large enough to squash possible fifth columns. Armed with World War I French artillery, the army ordered more from Germany in 1938, received cannon but little ammunition. Under Lend-Lease it has received additional arms from the U.S., but is still pitifully...
...style in which he'd been playing, Harry cultivated something new to jazz, which for lack of a definite name we'll call the Sousa style. He dragged out all the old show-pieces, like "Carnival of Venice," and transformed college dances into Sunday afternoon on the town square. Pure technical display, showers of notes in the fast sections, and syrupy rhapsodies in the slow sections...
...glaring miscast in the hero's role, the picture suffers obviously from the fact that the love theme is reduced to the familiar formula--boy meets girl on Hays Office terms. The ending of the picture is a complete reverse, Clive lives and makes an honest woman of Pure by marrying her. Thus what might have been a moving and convincing story of two lives, becomes a confused and completely banal hodgepodge...
...celebrated and great city, very rich and respected, very wise and strong, [where the people] lived in fine palaces, some made of pure jade, some of silver, and some of emeralds without flaw...
Like troop parachuting and dive-bombing-ingeniously adapted to the Nazi war of movement-the glider pickup was distinctly a U.S. development, an outgrowth of a mail pickup service which has been pure routine for three years on the routes of a Wilmington company, All American Aviation...