Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron ores, it was reclassified as a chemical nuisance. Then chemists learned how to remove titanium from iron ore, and found that its oxide is intensely white. So titanium dioxide got a job as a pigment for white paints. But until recently no one had much hope for the pure element as a metal. Getting it out of its ores in metallic form was very difficult...
...those who like their jazz pure, an airing of Bob Willbur's New Orleans artists direct from their den in Boston's Club Savoy will be a weekly feature...
...Many of the enamels had been intended for use in the Mass and, like the Mass itself, were laden with symbolic meanings. Among the best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold and copper that abounded in the region of Limoges, lay in frozen lakes between the ridges of metal and islanded gems...
...young Yale professor had an immediate success with a first novel, The Asiatics. Frederic Prokosch had written a story so flamboyantly adventurous and so rich in pure writing talent that to carp at its philosophical maunderings seemed petty. Wrote Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann: "I count it among the most brilliant and original achievements of the young literary generation." The trouble is that Prokosch has gone on writing variants of the same book for 13 years. His latest is Storm and Echo, like The Asiatics, a blend of far places, strange and terrible events, and a murky, anguished, generally unsuccessful search...
...picture singlehanded ; Dulcie Gray is highly satisfactory as his clumsy, devoted wife; and the handsome but somewhat wooden Kieron Moore is effectively used. The picture, made in England by Fox, is well filmed and has a climactic scene high on a fire ladder which is an excellent piece of pure scare...