Word: purer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bumptious youth, he displayed his first artistic creation in 15 years, a tiny pencil drawing of a chessman. Said Marcel, who lives in Manhattan: "I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art-and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position...
...make basketball rules were busy worrying about the height of the basket and length of the players, it turned out that the real trouble with the game was the size of the crowd. It would be hard to prove the three corruptibles from City College would have been purer in the intimacy of their own gymnasium than in the smoky atmosphere of Madison Square Garden, but it is reasonably certain that if they had not been so well-known they would never have received the temptation in the first place...
Like Gerhart Eisler, fugitive from U.S. justice and chief of propaganda for the Reds in East Germany, many a top German Communist spent the years of Hitler's ascendancy hidden away in hospitable Western countries. A few fled eastward to the purer atmosphere of Moscow. One of these was the recently appointed East Germany Party Boss Walter Ulbricht...
...many memories of personal friendship and public benefaction, so much of the spirit of the older and more humanistic Harvard, that the pen falters. All that he taught was precisely yet warmly of the best. No inference in the tremendous Harvard of my day drew its light from purer sources of diffused it more generously...