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Word: purely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...species Pheidole morrisi. He arranged for ant larvae to be reared to maturity under the care of soldiers only and of workers only, and found: "Where the soldier caste is present in large numbers, there is a decrease in the number of soldiers that are produced. Conversely, in pure colonies of workers an excess of soldiers tends to appear over the number which normally develop in a control colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Selective Service Underground | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...makes his troops behave like droops, And blesses the pure in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Asked why he had wanted to play The Man, Kaufman, who is a stockholder of the Playhouse and a resident of New Yorkerized Bucks County, said: "Pure exhibitionism. I'm just making a spectacle of myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Fun at New Hope | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Edward Strysko, at Suffern, N.Y., contributed 200 muffin-sized ingots of pure aluminum. He said that his hobby was moulding aluminum into muffin-sized ingots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL FRONT: Something To Do | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

There was no assurance that it would not flare up again. Both Governments were mad. Peru accused Ecuador of provoking an incident to force a settlement by the other American nations. Ecuador thought Peru was trying to settle the dispute by pure force. In Washington, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Bogotá diplomats hastened to proffer their good offices, hoping that at this time, of all times, the Americas would not get to fighting among themselves. But while statesmen took counsel together, 15,000 people marched through the streets of Quito, waving flags, stood bareheaded before the statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shooting Scrape | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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