Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give it a thought now and then. But the men who published that book didn't think sex had any place in a dignified analysis of Harvard's three hundredth class. It wasn't of permanent interest, they said, how many members of my class were 99.44 pure, if you follow me. They said it was poor taste and didn't mean anything to talk about such things. Are you listening, George...
...years ago geologists of Pure Oil Co. tabulated their seismographic readings and quietly reported that there was OIL. Pure Oil's hand was tipped to other operators early in 1937 when it began to buy up Illinois leases. Today Illinois is the No. 3 U. S. oil-producing State. Her daily production (around 430,000 bbl.) is more than enough to satisfy the estimated present needs of France and Britain combined. It is around 30% of Texas' output, 70% of California's, 105% of Oklahoma's. Scrambling in a devil-take-the-hindmost race...
...advent of Chick Webb and Gene Krupa has revolutionized the style of every rhythm section in the country, so that today even a mediocre band like Jan Savitt's can cut any of the old Armstrong or Henderson groups as for as pure rhythm is concerned. Compare Fletcher's Sugarfoot Stomp with Savitt's and see what I mean...
...would be consumed, leaving helium as ash. One cycle would take about 52,000,000 years, but there would be enough cycles going on all the time to keep the sun hot. Though Dr. Bethe carefully observed mathematical flying rules, he calculated all this in the blue sky of pure theory...
THIS LAND Is OURS-Louis Zara-Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). By pure bulk of fodder this 776-page narrative of the Revolutionary frontier will satisfy munchers of romance as much as its mixture of admirable material and thoroughly uninspired talent will disappoint critics. In a Conestoga wagon, young Andrew Benton crosses the wild Alleghenies, gets into practically everything out there from the 1760s on, up to and including the last Indian war dance at Chicago...