Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pure and bright once didst thou...
Maidens made of pure gold...
Conductor George Szell of the Cleveland Orchestra first got him interested in the A problem. What orchestras needed for tuning purposes, Pickering decided, was a pure, unvarying note with no overtones. No ordinary loudspeaker (and no musical instrument) emits pure tones: what comes out is a mixture of dominant tone and any number of overtones...
Pickering designed a special loudspeaker which would give a pure tone when fed an electric current pulsing at A-frequency (440 cycles a second). He sealed in a vacuum a carefully compensated tuning fork that is kept vibrating electrically. An amplifying circuit picks up the vibrations, feeds them to the loudspeaker. The result: a loud, true A. It is not a very musical sound, for it lacks softening overtones, but it is accurate to one one-hundred-thousandth of a cycle...
With all their frenzied galloping, Duel's horses run a poor second to Sex (Jennifer Jones). Jennifer is the half-breed Indian girl who works on the Barrymore ranch. She is mildly mystified by the pure love that good Joe Gotten offers her. But her savage blood beats a wild response to the dishonorable advances of that fascinating rascal, Peck. She tries ever so desperately to resist the bad man. She tries - and fails provocatively, in a low-cut bodice - first in the ranch house, and again on the rush-fringed riverbank, and several times in her own dimly...