Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unschooled Prose. It is equally remarkable to get such pure prose from a young (28) woman who never got beyond primary school. Normandy-born Madeleine Couppey was born in poverty, became a housemaid in her early teens. At 16 she was washing cars in a Paris garage...
Though viruses have no known sex. they reproduce themselves, apparently under the same laws of heredity as living creatures. Through mutations, they constantly produce new breeds. But some strains remain remarkably pure. The mumps virus, for example, has not changed in thousands of years; mumps symptoms are still about the same as they were when first described by Hippocrates (circa...
...raise subsistence payments for student-veterans. The chairman of the Rules Committee predicts it will not even reach the floor for a vote at this time. Why should it? Have not the concerned congressmen salved their consciences by demanding that assistance go only to the 99.44 per cent pure...
...Dickens' novels, "Great Expectations" is loosely constructed. It centers around the boyhood and early manhood of Pip, who has spent his early years with his sister, the wife of a blacksmith. There are two completely separate plots, which Dickens, with characteristic wantonness, connects at the end by means of pure coincidence. Condemned as lack of skill, this deus ex machina shows only that the author was more interested in character, scene, and the fate of his hero than he was in the mechanics of plot...
...avoid the bends (caused by nitrogen bubbles in the blood), high-altitude flyers during the war usually breathed pure oxygen, or a mixture of oxygen and helium, for an hour or more before taking off. But they suffered no ill effects because they breathed it at ground level atmospheric pressure...