Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pure money movements (as distinguished from gold and currency moving to pay for goods) can be stopped by simple decree by a strong central bank. But so long as the underlying causes remain, all the fiscal curbs in the world will not stop Argentina's incoming golden flow...
Sheean found Singapore "a mass of contradictions." He heard some Australian troops singing Sweet Adeline loudly and off key, and thought that their "raucous dissent with their surroundings" was "pure essence of Singapore-jazz dancing on the edge of the jungle, unthinking but offensive racial pride, a general clash of unrelated forces and a great unawareness of destiny." There was greater awareness at Mandalay, where the Flying Tigers' Colonel Claire Chennault first told Sheean about a new Japanese plane, the Zero. Chennault had reconstructed a fallen Zero, had great respect...
Perhaps the most convincing flaw in the fantasy of the Chicago style's existence today, is the wide discrepancy in the styles of the Chicagoans. Contrast, for example, Pee-wee Russell and Mezz Mesirow, who is in partial retirement from his music, the "dirty" clarinet and the pure, reminiscent of New Orleans...
...leading method was to import topflight European refugee mathematicians. Of 131 now here, the Foundation brought in 28. The refugees include 16 from Germany's famous Göttingen Mathematical Institute-some ousted Jews, others disgusted "Aryans." Many are "pure" scientists now in the applied field, training students of ballistics, aerodynamics. Three of the Mathematician refugees (including Department Head Richard Courant) are at N.Y.U., two are at Brown, others at Harvard, Chicago, Wisconsin, M.I.T., the New School for Social Research and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
Tone Deafness. The trouble is that Joseph Freeman is by no stretch of the imagination a good novelist. He is not even, in the sense that a novel requires, a good writer. With rare exceptions he is incapable even of suggesting that his characters are human. Even when, through pure earnestness, he manages to, his dialogue throws the matter in doubt. Few young women lie in bed and say to their husbands, "You can't call Spain a handful of fanatical idealists. A whole people is fighting at bay for its freedom and its life. And millions the world...