Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientist then had a violinist play a Strad and two new violins behind a screen, asking an audience-many of whom were musically erudite-to tell which was which. Only about a third guessed right, and this number would be expected to guess correctly oft the basis of pure chance...
...town of Beeston, in central England, lived Dr. Leonard Phipps Lockhart, a nervous, high-strung man of 41, with his devoted wife, Mary. As medical chief of Boots Pure Drug Co. (biggest British drug chain), he supervised the health and mental-hygiene activities of 22,000 employes. Three years ago, he got in the news by addressing a meeting of topflight British scientists on "neuroses and unbalanced lives." He knew what he was talking about...
Died. One of the three pet canaries (all pure yellow without mark of any other color) of Pope Pius XII; in Vatican City. While the Pope lunches, as according to court etiquette he must alone, he used to let them out of their cage to fly around...
...they sound, Mr. Propter's ideas boil down to this: "Time and craving, craving and time-two aspects of the same thing; and that thing is the raw material of evil." Good, impossible within time, exists only on the animal level and on the level of eternity, of "pure, disinterested consciousness." That level is attained in the loss of wilfulness, of desire, of personality...
...rejoicing at his conviction, the American public has little chance of deciding sanely whether reaction or justice prevailed. The Goddess of emotion, not law, holds the scales. Too many liberal minds can be swayed by nightmares of a coming purge. Too many conservatives can ease their conscience in the pure and American conduct of the trial. But the error is not in the conviction but in the charge. The real question is whether passport violation should have been pressed in the first place...