Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odyssey," observed the buck, "is not history; it's pure legend. The history of great battles can be told and retold until all fact is sacrificed for legend." A studious-looking private, first class, took issue. Said he: "It's neither history nor legend; it's just good literature...
Trying to substitute pure power for the polish it lacked, the Varsity baseball nine was stalled Saturday afternoon by the veteran Lincoln Mohawks, 3 to 2 in the thirteenth inning. The excellent bat work of the Crimson could not make up for the brevity of the pre-season practice period and the Varsity contributed four telling errors to the Mohawks...
This became apparent last week in Manhattan, whither had swarmed retail-clothes buyers from 48 States to see the first collection of fashions wholly controlled by war needs. WPB, fashion's new dictator, had shaken clothes makers with restrictions on materials, dyes, slide fasteners. Pure wools and silk are disappearing fast and rayon supplies are not inexhaustible-manufacturers have had to piece them out with reprocessed fibers, re-used wools, the new cloth made of milk (aralac), mohair, rabbit fur, and with cotton gabardine, corduroy, velveteen featured for winter...
...late, 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Patton, who last year left the minister 30% of her $1,300,000. The relatives charged that Dr. Darlington had made love to the widow for ten years to get the money; Dr. Darlington's attorneys described the relationship as pure mother-&-son. Twenty-eight affectionate letters were introduced. One of them: "Dear Anna: Lots of love. Off to Paris tonight. Harry." Excerpt from another from Harry: "Everything is so mixed up. But where there is a will, there is a way." It looked like a long, ambiguous fight...
...Fight was still over soap, and among the juiciest corners of the U.S. soap market was the all-purpose, bland, white soap that floated.* For years there have been other floating soaps in a small way, but "99-44 100% pure" Ivory has always been synonymous with floating soap to the average U.S. citizen. As far back as 1933, Lever experiments with a "different" floating soap had led them to the U.S. Patent Office. In 1940 the company obtained a patent on a "revolutionary" (and still extremely hush-hush) soapmaking process: a "continuous" manufacturing technique that turned out floating soap...