Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuff that came whooshing up out of the newly drilled well was-believe it or not-pure nitrogen. It may be, reports Nebraska Geologist Harold J. Cook in Science, the first nitrogen well ever struck. Drillers were hunting water on an eastern Wyoming ranch when, at a depth of only 156 ft., gas whistled...
...19th-Century glassmakers, tired of the facile insipidity to which their art had gradually descended, began to look back with nostalgia at the simple dignity and pure color of medieval windows. They found not only that the medieval stained glass was more luminously splendid than that of the Renaissance, but that it was also more permanent. After much careful research, such famed U.S. glassmakers as Boston's Charles Jay Connick and Philadelphia's Nicola D'Ascenzo readopted the medieval method. The stained-glass makers of the "Gothic Revival" again worked entirely in medieval snippets...
...clarinet playing seemed to have deteriorated, that it his lacked the verve and snap and inventiveness of yore. not only in his commercial products of popular airs, but in his too infrequent jazz records, his solos have been adversely affected by his full-dress symphony performances, for the cold, pure classical clarinet tone Mozart wanted sounds cold and pure when transferred to jazz, where tone can express so much...
...wealthy families who like their girls to be artified and musicked. But Mrs. Cosgrave, who believes in feminine independence, has tried since 1929 to persuade parents that, in a world of disappearing wealth, practical arts would do rich girls no harm. In 1937 she transformed Finch from a pure finishing school into a junior college (like Sarah Lawrence, Stephens...
...picture, for there is something too agonizingly real about the military genius of the Germans in the past three years to make them effective butts for farcical humor. Actually, in all recent war films, Hollywood has shown a propensity to have the Gestapo foiled by the most guileless and pure of people in "Paris Calling," "Man Hunt." "The Great Dictator," and so on. None of these plots had an adult approach to the complicated processes which will lead us to victory. Little wonder, then, that the average American, fed on such treacle, believes that the Germans will crack when faced...