Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarter of a century, the Societe du bon parler franc.ais has been battling the encroachment of English. Each year it bombards French Canadians with 100,000 blotters, bearing exhortations to keep their speech pure. Students among the 27,000 members pay a one-cent fine to fellow members who catch them in solecisms...
Deepest. The Pure Oil Co., which has been drilling an oil well in Wyoming's Wind River Valley, brought in a producing well at 14,309 ft., a record depth. (Previous record for a producing well: a 14,000-ft.-deep well in Grady County, Okla.) In a 41-hour test, the well flowed 1,413 barrels. The news sent Pure Oil's stock up 4½ points to 40 in one day on the New York Stock Exchange...
Miss Hellman's play is the kind a stage cast can really sink its teeth in; and it has been screened with a Broadway kind of incisiveness. It isn't in any pure sense a movie; but under Michael Gordon's direction it is a nearly perfect example of how to film a play. There is hardly a shot which does not set up visual tension against the lashing, steel-spring dialogue; there is not a single performance which is short of adequate; the work of Miss Eldridge, Mr. O'Brien and Betsey Blair...
...manage to understand each other. It is not enough to say that a few men in the Kremlin will deny to a large number of people the chance to learn. It is not enough to say that our motives, which we think of as altruistic and pure, "are certainly misunderstood in South America . . . Now we must find out why we are misunderstood ... If the London Congress [begins] the solution of this problem . . . we will be doing a great deal to eliminate the causes of war. If in the measurable future we don't find some way of eliminating...
United States policy toward Eastern Europe is not so pure as the American press makes one believe, UN delegate from Poland Juliusz Katz-Suchy declared last night at Littauer in a meeting sponsored by the UN Council...