Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...territory's half million population, Caucasians-not including 32,000 Army, Navy and Air Force personnel-comprise 33.4%. The rest: Japanese, 32.4%; part-Hawaiian, 12.4%; Filipinos, 10.4% ; Chinese, 5.9% ; pure Hawaiian, 2.1% ; Koreans, 1.4% ; Puerto Rican, .8% ; all others...
Molotov blandly played the same propaganda record over again. Cried Ernie Bevin: ". . . The same untrue statements are repeated as if we had never answered them." Said Marshall: "... A pure propaganda statement. [Mr. Molotov] makes it rather difficult to inspire respect for the dignity of the Soviet Government." Molotov tautened, stared straight at the blue table. "He looked," said one observer, "a little stiller...
Dean Bender, writing in the Alumni Bulletin, confessed that he was disturbed about his 3500 veterans. Too may of them, he said, were digging "academic foxholes." Dean Bender underlined the existence of two levels on which the undergraduate operates: on one he is the pure individual, plowing alone through the work laid out for him on his study card; he is, on this level, the only individual that matters. On the other level he is an individual in society: one of two, or three, or four roommates, one of three hundred members of a house; one of 5500 undergraduates...
That committee stated in its report, "The sloppy and disorganized way the Student Council has been conducting elections during the last two years is an outrage to any sense of craftsmanship and responsibility and results in pure evil for everyone concerned." The report further recommended that, "The Student Council member in charge of Class Affairs shall be responsible for seeing that all candidates nominated are members of the class and in good academic standing." If this elementary precaution had been taken the Applegate episode could never have occurred...
Edmund Gwenn turns in a ripe performance, in the Fyffe role, as a drunken, bragging Scottish father; there are some memorable Technicolored registrations of solemn night skies and sullen landscapes; and the sequences in which the competing dogs work their sheep have a silent, lovely concentration on pure skill that makes the rest of the picture worth idling through. Thunder in the Valley is no Lassie and certainly no To the Victor, but it is a pleasant, gentle retelling of a fine old story...