Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garden of Eden was located, and there, as in Author James Hilton's mythical Tibetan valley of Shangri-La, native tribesmen live an incredibly long time. Ages well over 100 are commonplace in the Caucasus, a land of mixed nationalities which include gypsies from India, Turks, pure-blooded Semites, Finns, Mongolians and Negroes from Africa...
...such ends as these that institutions of pure and applied science...
...changing frequency could only be answered by the FCC in Washington. At week's end, the FCC protested that Chairman Wayne Coy had already discussed the situation in a letter. And so he had, without giving a jot of information. With masterly ambiguity and in pure Federalese, Coy had written: "New developments cannot be scheduled, and therefore it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to determine when any piece of radio receiving equipment may become obsolete. We are unable, therefore, to make any recommendation regarding the obsolescence of equipment now being manufactured and sold...
...Engineering is one of the areas where one cannot always distinguish between the 'techniques' of the scientist interested only in new conceptual schemes and those of the experimenter interested only in an improved industrial machine or process," the President continued. "In short we recognize that yesterday's pure science is today's applied science and tomorrow's billion dollar industry...
Capote's style is pure and free from writer's cramp in dealing with such subjects as the devotions and heroisms of children and the world of intense phenomena in which children live. His description of Miss Bobbit, in Children on Their Birthdays, may not be for everybody, but it is a fair example of good Capote: "By now it was almost nightfall, a firefly hour, blue as milkglass; and birds like arrows swooped together and swept into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit...