Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took Ed Flynn's remarks as an invitation to battle. Republican Leader Wendell Willkie took them as a tragedy. In a Syracuse, N.Y. speech Republican Willkie said that the "greatest disaster" that could befall America now would be for her to be conducted down "the route of pure partisanship...
Stories current in Boston tabloids yesterday afternoon saying that the Yard dormitories will be rented or donated to the armed services as a training center, were branded as "pure imagination" last night by University officials...
Bachelor Duck has complained about a lot of things, but his salary ($2,501) is not one of them. Its revelation is pure patriotism on his part. His employer, Walt Disney (whose reputation is any thing but a pinchpenny's), was asked by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to make a picture reminding U.S. citizens that millions of them are expected to pay an income tax for the first time this year...
...Because a lot of water power is going to waste near the Upper Michigan deposits, says Henry Ford, "we could process the poor-grade ore right at the source and ship a pure product instead of shipping bulky ore all the way to our blast furnaces [at Dearborn...
...darkness of the rest of the world. In the last war Wilson was the guardian angel of the great myth. In this war Henry Luce has cast Roosevelt as the champion of the liberal democratic ideal leading the world into an American Century. The strange thing about this simon pure attitude towards America, is that it is embraced by isolationists as freely as interventionists. Ever since Henry James we have tended to consider ourselves apart from the wickedness of the rest of the world, clinging to a charmed existence with a sort of childish naivete...