Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best dancers since Nijinsky, Fred Astaire should have had more dances to do. In The Sky's the Limit he has only three, none of which suggests the fact, nimbly demonstrated in shows like Top Hat, that Astaire's dancing at its best can be a pure, heart-lifting delight. His latest partner, Joan Leslie, imparts the double impression in their dance numbers that she is hanging onto his thumb and that she is doing remarkably well in view of the fact that she is not Fred Astaire. At less strenuous moments Cinemactress Leslie is so nice...
...Pure Optimism...
...height of seven feet.* Canny Richard Mortimer examined the flora, reported: "The plant can be grown as easily as a common weed, and raw rubber will drip from it when it is cut. Samples of the plant were sent to a chemist. The report came back: 'pure latex.' Each plant yields between one and two ounces of latex; an acre would yield over two tons. The possibilities are stupendous. The center of the rubber-producing world will be right here in England, and the cost of rubber will be only a fraction of the present price...
There are not to be any candidates nominated for the representative positions as elections will be run on a pure democratic basis. Ballots will be distributed to all V-12 men who will write their four choices for the position of House Committee member. After the ballots have been counted under the supervision of the staff, the six men receiving the highest number of votes will be elected...
...conclaves of some 30 U.S. fascist and near-fascist groups. What he saw and heard, and what he thinks about it, makes a bulky (544 pages), jumbled, fact-crammed book. * It is good reading and worth reading; it is a believable account of real viciousness, relieved by fragments of pure absurdity. Smart readers will make allowances for Investigator Carlson's enthusiasms, distinguish for themselves between stooges and stars...