Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound of pure opium ("hop"), which used to cost $75 in the U.S. underworld, now brings as much as $700. The price of pure heroin ("aitch") has gone up from $60 an ounce...
...striking illustration of what is going on throughout the U.S. in church music. For the past decade, music directors and organists of big city parishes have been vigorously campaigning to throw out the oldtime Victorian anthems and Gospel hymns and substitute the works of the so-called "pure classicists" like Bach, Palestrina, Victoria and the modern imitators of their polyphonic styles. Most ministers and congregations are either indifferent or hostile to change. Volunteer smalltown choirs, unopposed by professionals, are still enthusiastically flatting their way through the complicated, sentimental standbys. And even in Manhattan-hotbed of the classicist movement...
...will accuse "Murder, My Sweet" of being cinematic art, but perhaps Hollywood has less trouble with pure entertainment than with art. In spite of its faults, if not for them, the production must be classed among the rightful box-office successes of the year...
...also received much. The sun of liberty first shone over this part of the country. It is we, up here, who are privileged to start the new Norway. It is we, up here, who must call the tune. If it rings weakly, at least it must ring true and pure. Then it will blend, one day, with the great symphony which shall well out over the land...
...readers can thus envision themselves in every tell-all); 2) since the readers live drab lives, they naturally wonder what would have happened if they had gone sinning instead - and by reading about sin in True Confessions, they have the satisfaction of knowing that they were wise to stay pure...