Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic Party. Last week the President brought the two loves together for a gala two days of eating, drinking, ribbing, horseshoe-pitching and politicking. The picnic grounds were the Jefferson Islands Club, three dots of green in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, a sumptuous hideaway dedicated to simon-pure Democracy. The President's playmates: more than 200 Democrats-Congressmen and Cabinet members, a few business bigwigs, a few tried & true old friends...
Psychoanalysis, which is a religion to its followers, has its own high church, and an elaborate collection of schismatics and nonconformists. The simon-pure fundamentalists are the anointed followers of the late Dr. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis. Most of this tight group of disciples are in the U.S. Out last week was their first Year book of Psychoanalysis, which reverently reiterated their creed that in the beginning was sex, is now, and ever shall...
WNEW auditioned 70 Negro players, discovered no difference between "white" and "Negro" voices, found voices for all types of parts from pure cockney to half-breed Mexican. WNEW will mention the American Negro Theater only once-at the end of each program...
...second by-product was pure horror. In the ordinary operation of a large-scale pile, calculated Dr. Smyth, enough radioactive poisons could be produced every day to make "large areas uninhabitable...
...There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily and leaving them to direct themselves," says President Conant. "There is only one proved method of getting results in applied science--picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and keeping their aim on the target chosen...