Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of the free States combining against the totalitarian nations in trade is just nonsense. The world has to live, and moreover the interests of the free States are too divergent to consummate any such combination." For U. S. economic defense, he proposed classic remedies: more research in pure and applied science, more industrial efficiency, more labor-saving devices...
With genial sophistry the new Ambassador explained how he will try to overcome the two obstacles to friendship. "I will simply say: 'Tovarish Molotov,' and start getting acquainted with the Soviet big shots," said he. "I have no use for Communists but I like Russians. They are pure-minded and simple...
...lower board costs by only a very small amount if at all, an amount which might well be offset by some of the disadvantages to student waiting. Any savings brought about by reorganization of the dining halls in the direction of greater efficiency would, on the other hand, be pure gain. The only justification for the introduction of student waiting is that it would supplement the work of the Temporary Student Employment plan in providing jobs for students. If is on this ground, and in view of the considerable support for such a plan expressed by undergraduates, that the committee...
...Timothy P. White of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Animal Industry, recently returned from Europe, where he spent five years, predicted possible "disaster" last week for the "magnificent strains of Jersey and Guernsey cows." Reason: the cows had been bred "pure" since the year 960. Now they have all been shipped to England, where they may well be lost through interbreeding...
...dramatic monologue as developed by Browning. Many of his gripes, grouchings and mph-mph mannerisms are hardly superior to those of a young "character" actor playing an old man. Between these strict archaic boundaries he constructs a complexity of invention, scholarly research, literary criticism, topical satire, prophecy, pure poetry. In every refraction, like the turnings of light within the depths of an iceberg, is recorded more of the nature, substance, detail of that bitterly remote, contemptuous, inhumanly self-pleased, almost divine prescience which is the essence of genius as Goethe had it-or as Thomas Mann observes and believes...