Word: pur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, John Bigelow, Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin-great men who had made the Post a landmark of journalism. But these men had passed and the Post was no longer their Post. It was a paper run by a group of wealthy men for the pur pose of satisfying their view of what a newspaper should be-an educated man's paper, liberal, refined, in good taste. Mr. Curtis changed the Post into what he thought a paper should be-a paper for news, a go-getter for circulation, the kind of intellectual pabulum that...
Concerning prohibition: " I think the decision of the United States Supreme Court was a good one. . . . When we go to Europe we obey the laws of whatever country we are in, and when their boats come here we can expect them to obey pur laws...
...American preacher remarked that "it would have been impossible to fight through the Civil War without the imprecatory Psalms." Now a large section of the church wishes to abolish such Psalms from their weekly worship. What Galileo said of the world might also be said of religion: "E pur si muove-it does move...