Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once happened to the German admiral who made the wrong moves and found himself suctioned to the seat. The other book is This Is Where I Came In (Bobbs-Merrill; $3), filled with stories of the British fleet, the Normandy fighting, the final victory. In either case, it is pure Casey...
...summer students.* Behind its stately facade, soft-voiced, bespectacled Executive Director Arnold Shaw of the Schillinger Society gave the first Schillinger lecture in an American music school. His objective: to prepare 35 music teachers and students for 1950, when Schillingerites predict that orthodox composers will be old-hat and "pure music" will be created by music engineers on machines (like the Rhythmicon invented by Schillinger...
Like his friends, Fitzgerald caroused freely. But unlike most of them he also produced novels and short stories with passion and vigor-just, he said, as "certain racehorses run for the pure joy of running." The product, Critic Rosenfeld points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance...
...Mill (TIME, Aug. 11, 1941), Masefield showed that he could distill romance even from the job he once held in a Yonkers, N.Y. carpet factory (1895). With a deck instead of a rug under his feet, Britain's 67-year-old Poet Laureate puts his memories, in pure and simple descriptive prose, to better use than ever. Like its great predecessor Life on the Mississippi (which Author Mase field has reread once a year for decades), New Chum has the freshness of a story that never grows old - the story of a boy's initiation into...
...tool (until now a military secret) is a tube which looks like a pea shooter. It has a waterproofed electrode which heats metal electrically to 6,000-10,000° F., and a jet which shoots a stream of pure oxygen, slicing rapidly through the molten plate...