Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saboteur (Frank Lloyd; Universal) is one hour and 45 minutes of almost simon-pure melodrama from the hand of the master: bejowled, Buddha-ball Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, etc.), whose guileless countenance and cherubic demeanor mask a talent for scaring hell out of cinema audiences...
...peacetime research which many industries had to shelve would have precipitated great advances within five years. And other farseeing scientists like Vannevar Bush concede a short-term gain for applied science but a long-term loss, for the ultimate wellspring of technological progress is in fundamental, "pure" research, far from the gadget factory...
...Pure research is not secret now. In most sciences it no longer exists...
President Roosevelt heard the cheering thunder of the U.S. war production machinery and made a decision: the production goals at first called staggering, and denounced in Berlin as pure bluff, were too small after all. He told a press conference that U.S. industry, powered and geared for war, might by the end of 1943 be able to turn out more than the impossible totals of January 6: 185,000 planes, 120,000 tanks and 55,000 anti-aircraft guns. He admitted one disquieting exception to the good news: ship construction, lagging for lack of steel plates. But Franklin Roosevelt firmly...
...possible to do quite well in the more elementary stages of chemistry with almost no knowledge of mathematics, but the man who hopes to do any advanced work in the field will find Math A invaluable, and Math 2 helpful. The higher reaches of research chemistry become almost pure mathematics at times...