Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pure Principle. From first to last, self-schooled, slow-minded Theodore Dreiser was ridiculed as a turgid stylist and a ponderous craftsman. His critics will still find much to ridicule in this novel. Other readers may find that the slow, munching rhythm, the tone-deaf iteration, the lifelessness of epithet, are of a rocklike unity with the earnest intelligence, the upright and enduring heart, which even Dreiser's detractors give him credit for. They may also find that Dreiser was capable of a remarkable purity of communication whenever he was deeply moved. For in the words of the American...
...prodigious USSR state support for scientific research, even along "pure" lines was lauded by Shapley, who expressed hopes for an American equivalent and who observed somewhat bitterly that American research must often be conducted by "tired professors in over-time hours...
Until TIME came along journalism had developed, in about 150 years, from pure commercialism (ship news, market reports, etc.) and personal political pamphleteering to a heterogeneous recording-interspersed with mighty "crusades"-of generally unrelated and unexplained events. A business man, say, could find the sports section intact, but he had to read every item in his daily paper to make sure that he hadn't missed something of significance to him. TIME proposed to change that. Its original prospectus said...
...land of the African Rhino There lives a pure white albino. His parents are blacker than Navy tobaccer; How he can be white I'm damnfino...
...scientists had hoped to return to the ivory towers of pure and free research. Few had succeeded. The bomb had smashed their cloistered world as flat as Hiroshima. Disconsolately, sometimes angrily, they wandered about the ruins...