Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pure dishwash," snorted the British, of R.A.F.-directed criticism, although British anti-aircraft batteries are known to have shot down R.A.F. planes at night. As for the Italians, the British had an even better story to tell of their ignorance...
Heretofore the only commercial source of alumina-the oxide from which the pure metal is produced-has been bauxite, about half of which is now imported from British and Dutch Guiana, since there are only some 13,000,000 tons of known high-grade bauxite deposits in the U.S.-about a three-year supply at the present rate of consumption...
...closely-analyzed passage on the philosophy of democracy, Perry, like Aristotle, advocates a mingling of extremes. Realism must be coupled with idealism, pure force with conviction; pride in a people's possibilities of improvement must be joined with humility in appraising its accomplishments; a nation must look out for itself by looking out for others as well...
...health. An old friend got him a job in a school where the food was scanty, his room an unheated garret. No longer free, he could no longer endure solitude. In the end he was horribly captured by a crazy old brothel madam who conceived for him a pure, discarnate love, and he died a clinically brutal death...
...worn by instrument-making Sperry Corp., which has been at it since 1936. Of Sperry's $250,000,000 backlog, almost all defense orders, 50% (in man-hours) is farmed out to more than a thousand firms. Half of these companies and 35% of the man-hours represent pure subcontracting (as distinguished from normal purchases from vendors). This week Sperry President Thomas A. Morgan described Sperry's subcontracting methods, gave some pointers that Floyd Odium's Defense Contract Distribution Service might well note...