Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are other controlled-atmosphere processes using pure nitrogen, ammonia gas, etc., and eliminating oxygen, water vapor and carbon dioxide. But the lithium system provides a neutral atmosphere so simple to handle that little skill is needed. Air and fuel gas are automatically circulated, picking up lithium vapor from a small, renewable cartridge about the size of a tin cup, which lasts for eight hours. As long as the exhaust gas burns with the bright scarlet flame characteristic of the spectrum of lithium salts, any workman not color-blind can see that the furnace is working properly...
...what is "Swing?" Originally, in a pure sense it meant jazz in a big-band form. Even though Goodman relied far less on solos than a small jam outfit, the spirit and excitement of jazz was present in these performances of his hand. But in these days when Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Harry James are "Kings of Swing," it is clear that the original meaning of the word has been perverted...
...what is "Swing?" Originally, in a pure sense it meant jazz in a big-band form. Even though Goodman relied far less on solos than a small jam outfit, the spirit and excitement of jazz was present in the performances of his band. But in these days when Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Harry James are "Kings of Swing," it is clear that the original meaning of the word has been perverted...
...philosophy (which was finally put into effect in March 1942) assumed that inflation can be stopped just by proclaiming that all prices are frozen as of a given date. But, as Columnist Walter Lippmann argued last week, the idea that a general price freeze will be effective is pure illusion...
...both cases, Red Nichols and Pine Top Smith, the music is as fine as the surfaces are terrible. In addition, the seventy-five cents price is too much, even for second masters. The higher tariff would be justified by good surfaces, but in the present instance, it's pure inflation...