Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White men learned how to survive in a brutal country from the Indians and demonstrated their gratitude by destroying a race. The Indians could not adapt themselves to civilization and soon became the victims in one of the greatest confidence games in history. Drunk on pure alcohol, the braves "sighed and applauded like a congregation of Follies girls at a Mainbocher private showing" when they receiver a doorman's uniform for their furs. The mountain men fought better than the Indians, hysterical missionaries broke down their religion, and civilized diseases destroyed their bodies...
None was awaited with more interest than the new overture by brilliant young Aram Khachaturian, 43, which will have its premiere in Leningrad during the celebrations. He had scored it for 110 pieces, including a pipe organ and 18 trumpets. Said he: "It has no literary program-it is pure music." Then he hastily added: "But it has ideas . . . the legitimate feeling of pride and rejoicing for our nation's victory over the German invaders and the social significance of the 30th anniversary of the revolution...
...like a huge wave. This outrage in retaliation for that one and that in retaliation for still another, and a new one in retaliation for the latest before it, and still a newer in retaliation for that, another set aflame by the stories of refugees and another still by pure rumor, and another in retaliation for that and still another by rumor. The genius of India has ever been for myth, not rationality: and no man's reason may be expected to remain intact under the intricate chemistries of horror, heartbreak, revenge, the vertiginous contagion of mobs, a thousand...
...only really effective cure for fatness, Dr. Bruch believes, is not in exercise or diets (although the "pure mechanical reducing," now popular in the reducing academies, is sometimes surprisingly successful, but only when the students have enough emotional control of themselves to go through with the course). Fatness, she says, is a psychosomatic condition; the blubbery patient belongs not in the gym, but in a psychiatrist's office. She implies that, with modern insight and sympathetic doctors, such well-known fatties as St. Thomas Aquinas, William Howard Taft, Hermann Goring or Charles the Fat might have been skinnies...
Named the Committee on Applied Mathematics and the Calculating Laboratory, the group will for the first time consider application of the mechanical calculator to research in medicine, economics, social relations, and engineering, as well as in the pure physical sciences...