Word: purely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cabinet whenever the Premier has not been overthrown by a motion of no confidence, even though Parliament has made the Premier's life impossible, or should the President dissolve the Assembly whenever it has paralyzed the government, then a move which the President might interpret as a pure act of arbitration "designed to insure the normal functioning of the institutions" will inevitably become a hot political issue...
...Gaulle warns against a pure and simple regression into the limits and problems of metropolitan France; nothing could be more dangerous than the after-effects of such an amputation of France's historical image of herself...
...wants is to put the emphasis on quality, to encourage building better homes which will attract owners of less desirable houses to buy up, thereby upgrading the nation's entire housing supply. While much of the emergency postwar housing gave sound value, a lot of it was pure junk. In 1952 a congressional committee toured the U.S., found thousands of unhappy home buyers saddled with long-term mortgages on houses with floors that heaved like the ocean in a full gale, doors that would not close, and foundations that had settled away from the baseboard...
Fractured Decibels. Plane builders themselves long ago recognized the noise problem, went to work developing suppressors that would cut the roar and whine of pure jet engines without cutting engine efficiency too much. Last week Boeing announced that it had licked the problem. It said that its suppressor had cut jet noise below the level promised purchasers of the 707, making it slightly less noisy than a Super Constellation. The trick was done by breaking up the jet stream and funneling it through 21 narrow after tubes instead of one big tube. "The big, doughnut-shaped exhaust roar," said...
...talk about airplane noises, few property owners ever bother to take legal action, and fewer still win. The U.S. Air Force, for example, has been named in 34 suits about aircraft noise. Although its planes operate without suppressors, only three suits were lost; only one of those involved pure jets...