Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economy, lack of bombast and its forthright poetic atmosphere, wrote that "something of the crudeness and strength of pioneer America has crept into this new symphony,'' found it "as completely outside European experience as the prairie morning itself." To more cautious listeners it was not so much pure U. S. music as pure Harris...
...which they would probably be only too glad to see thrown away also. But the New Dealers, including Dean Landis, are idealistic about agencies, and see in them an important tool in the hands of a government working on all fronts for the "general welfare." It seems to them pure atavism to scrap the idea that it is a fine thing to assemble a group of experts and give them fairly sweeping powers to regulate some phase of national life. But this does not mean that agencies are an invention of the New Deal. Since 1789 Congress has delegated power...
...House of Commons, Neville Chamberlain dryly repeated that somehow, some way Britain would have sent men had Finland asked for them. Up jumped Leslie Hore-Belisha. The Finns, he said, had repeatedly asked for both materials and men. It was shameful "to plead as an excuse a pure technicality." Prime Minister Chamberlain politely corrected his former War Secretary. Materials they had asked...
...Traitor!" For five years the man who now controls the destiny of Ireland stood pat in his demand for a simon-pure, all-Ireland Republic. Then in 1926 he suddenly proposed to his party of Sinn Feiners that they enter the Irish Free State Legislature on condition that they would not have to swear to the oath of allegiance to George V. His proposal was promptly rejected, and he walked out of the Party to form the Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). Later he took the oath and entered the Dail. Old Republican "incorruptibles" shouted "Traitor!" They still...
...Make yourselves worthy of great books, for your enjoyment of them will depend largely upon what you bring to them." "The feeling which a mother has for her infant is absolutely pure and beautiful...