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Word: pureness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more inspiring sermon than one from the pulpit. It reassures the reader about life, makes him believe that justice always triumphs. The western story and the detective story go hand in hand. They are full of sincerity and guts, heroes who shoot straight and heroines as pure as the driven snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heroes Who Shoot Straight | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...tough part is getting the esters in pure form. It takes long hours of work to construct the ester molecule, and when it's finally finished there are a lot of chemicals mixed in that nobody wants. When Friedman and Wolf find out how to get rid of them, they'll be ready for the crucial mouse-test...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: University's Chemists Try Mustard Gas to Wipe Out Cancer Growths | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...boiled in oil or having my physical self dismembered into many parts as a so-called war criminal . . . Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is most urgently required . . . I hope now to convert the hostilities into peace and save the people. My heart is as clear as pure water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: City of Victory | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...supposed to be the love story of Lord Nelson and the wife of a British ambassador in Naples. It is also beautiful acted, staged, and directed; unfortunately the fact that it was written during the Battle of Britain is too obvious whenever politics is mentioned. The script is almost pure propaganda in places. However, beyond these perhaps picayune details, "That Hamilton Woman" is an entertaining movie and an excellent piece of work...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

...Wind Rise is no great shakes either as a novel or a sociological essay. But it manages to stand up-and to stand out-as another rich expression of Robert Graves's fantastical mind. To laugh in the face of his Goddess is only natural; but without this pure yet beastly muse Graves would probably not be what he emphatically is-one of the finest poets of the Late Christian Epoch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Utopia | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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