Word: purer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mike Sullivan is Cambridge's most loved and also perhaps most hated politician. In 1935, a few of his friends asked him to run for City Councilor. Mickey accepted and won. He first rose to national fame by declaring that Cambridge would be a better place and its citizens purer if Lenin's name were scratched out of every book in the City limits. Mickey fought hard for this proposal and even though he lost, he is still gunning for "those radicals...
...purer iron ore just found in Montana...
Goodspeed's addiction is chiefly botanical: he was hunting for new species of tobacco and other plants for the practical U.S. Department of Agriculture and for his own purer research at the University of California. He tells his adventures in a new book, Plant Hunters in the Andes (Farrar & Rinehart; $5). Like all scientists who have pillaged foreign flora for the profit of U.S. agriculture, Goodspeed and his staff had no easy time. They slept in huts tumbling with guinea pigs, which Peruvians keep as pets. They rode along precipices on dynamite trucks. They broke...
...topflight painters of his period. When Painter Marc was mustered off to war, even his animal world seemed too close to the savage world of reality. From the Western Front he wrote his wife: "Early in my life I found man ugly and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even in them I discovered so much conflict and feeling and such ugliness that instinctively, from inner necessity, my representations became even more schematic and abstract." Shortly afterward, under the guns of Verdun, Franz Marc was killed. Last week U. S. gallerygoers found his soft, poetically gloomy animal scenes...