Word: downright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midair collision of the New York and Detroit at Palomar, Argentine (TIME, March 7) with its two deaths, appeared to have softened South American hearts to the U. S. "good will" bearers, whose receptions, both in the press and officially, were, prior to that, cool if not downright unfriendly...
...Worcester, Mass., for a symposium on psychical research, called by Dr. Carl Murchison, Clark psychology chief, for the express purpose of assembling all evidence pro and con on returned spirits and publishing an impartial record. Dr. Murchison first made it clear that he and his Clark colleagues were downright skeptics, then opened the conference with a paper by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This paper, while it contained nothing new, made a distinction, sharply sustained by later speakers, between psychic research and the spiritist movement. Psychic research was described by Sir Arthur as "a sort of super-materialism;" the spiritist movement...
...permits Martin Greer, hard turfman, to install her as mistress in his mansion. Retaining her dignity and authority before Sportsman Greer and the world of Valesboro, she centres her otherwise thwarted hopes upon her son, plays a lone hand with courage. Not a brilliant piece of work, indeed often downright trite, the book's best recommendation is its publishers' confidence that the public will be pleased...
Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly. His Prospero* calm had left him. He ordered that $100,000 be given to national geological survey and bureau of mines explorers to hunt for potash deposits in Texas...
...country might well take unto itself another compliment for having produced a Will Durant. The Significance of his book is its extraordinary humanization of lives and literature which, for most people, lie moldering in the rat-runs of deserted lecture halls. Its 575 pages are more simple, vivid and downright readable than the average run of best-seller fiction, not excepting the direct quotations from philosophic works, which are invariably well chosen to promote clarity and to demonstrate flavors. As a textbook for classrooms it has obvious shortcomings - the jump from Aristotle to Bacon; the skimming of Descartes and Hume...