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Word: pureness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Universal Algebra," (1898), and "Principia Mathematics," (1910), in which he collaborated with is friend and former pupil Bertrand Russell. In the latter, a monumental three-volume opus, the authors cut one of the major tasks of philosophy in half by demonstrating that there is a definite connection between pure mathematics and logic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alfred North Whitehead Dies Suddenly Tuesday | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Live in Peace (Italian). Less detailed and less exciting to watch than Shoeshine, this film was even more striking in its pure exposition of human brotherhood (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Choice for 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Paris Embassy the celebrities sent their message: please let Eisler use his visa to France, where "we expect [him] to write the music for the film Alice in Wonderland." Said Cocteau: "If Eisler's music is good, who cares about his politics? . . . Politics are dirty. Art is pure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Just Deserts | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Examiner Boles, usually a mild-mannered man, looked hard at Young's argument for a close alliance between the Central and his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. In his report he called it a jumble of "opinions, prophecies, speculation and . . . pure fancy." Young's purchase of Central stock with C. & O. funds, he added, was to satisfy "his personal ambition." It showed "a willingness to take great risks with the company's funds"; so far, it had let C. & 0. in for a paper loss of $2,400,000. The stock bought at $18.98 a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry Man | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...busy lifetime, Burton Rascoe, Manhattan critic and literary Pooh-Bah, had been called a lot of other things, but never an economist. In his latest book of reminiscences, We Were Interrupted (Doubleday; $4), he pays his respects to the craft. His conclusion: "Economics is, by and large, pure mythology. . . . Any economic plan is workable just so long, and only so long, as it is sustained by faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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