Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interest in his own disease was still strong; he carried on polio research as "a hobby." Last week he reported to the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine the results of his hobby: he has isolated a polio virus 99.96% pure. Best previous results: a virus 80 to 95% pure, isolated at Stanford University a year ago (TIME...
Lobster. Last week, the royal scene was, as usual, pure pastel. Gustaf now spends most of his time at Drottningholm Castle, which stands on an island in a lake near Stockholm (his town palace has too many stairs, only one elevator). From his study window he can see his subjects walking beneath the huge trees in the garden or near the pond where, in the summer, they feed Gustaf's swans. He likes to surround himself with women & children, lunches in the company of elderly ladies in waiting. His favorite dish is still lobster in brandy sauce...
...high gravity of the oil (it is almost pure gasoline), and the depth of the oil-saturated strata (about 1,700 ft., the deepest of its kind ever found), caused experts to guess that the pool may contain a minimum of 50 million barrels, a maximum of 600 million barrels. In honor of Old Mike, the area was named Benedum Field...
...precisely this joy that solemn Critic Daiches misses. Readers will certainly leave his book convinced that Stevenson, as he grew older, was more interested in problems of human relationships, less absorbed in the fantasies of pure action and adventure. But they may jib at Critic Daiches' regret that Stevenson "arrived so late at the discovery of the kind of writing in which alone real greatness lies." Real greatness is not as choosy as its critics, and Stevenson's best adventure stories share a shelf with the Iliad, the Canterbury Tales, the Arabian Nights, Romeo and Juliet, Robinson Crusoe...
...nobody's fool. He knows that his talents, though real, are not extraordinary. He is acutely aware of the wide gap between his natural abilities and his smashing success. He knows pretty well how much of his spectacular rise he can credit to himself, how much to pure luck, how much to the peculiarities of the flying-trapeze world he works in. He fully expects to wake up one of these days and find himself in San Diego again, driving a truck...