Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouted: "You don't have to figure what this rock runs to the ton; it assays by the pound." At the O'Brien mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont., speculators caressed a new-found slab of what mining men call "jewelry"-a ten-pound chunk of practically pure gold worth $2,000. At Noranda's golf course, golfers played around two gold-drilling sites smack in the middle of a fairway. The gold stock market reached its highest point in four years...
Something Turns Up. Crerar is pure Scotch-Canadian. Born 56 years ago to a middleclass, nonmilitary family in Hamilton, he learned about war at the Royal Military College in Kingston. Deciding that he could not live on a junior officer's pay and unwilling to cadge from his father, he took a job as an electrical engineer, a commission in the militia, and waited for something to turn...
...worn with bare brown legs, and Tripoli-tanean sandals, they lose all that stuffy, towny look that prints too often have. . . 'Gabriella Sports' is now owned by Countess di Robilant [the former Carolyn Kent of Asheville, N.C.], who . . . makes most of the dresses. . . . There's beautiful, pure silk shantung to be had here (all fabrics are fabulously high-priced), which she uses in lovely colour combinations...
...chance of getting what he wanted from a Dominion-provincial conference. He waited until an eleventh hour before Parliament adjourned, then let off his bombshell-there would be no conference. He blamed "the attitude of the Premier of Ontario." Cried flabbergasted Mr. Drew: "An alltime high in pure unadulterated hypocrisy...
Sneered ungrateful Leader Jinnah: "A parody of negation. . . . Pure shadow and husk of our Pakistan scheme...