Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last semester, we knew we would encounter disagreement. Realizing that new ideas, especially radical ones, are always a hard sell at first, we even anticipated a certain degree of hostility. We certainly did not expect to see in The Crimson an attack like Chris H. Kwak's "Critique of Pure Nonsense" (January 30). Kwak's fact-free, sarcasm-laced rant would not normally warrant a response, but given that it and a similar diatribe printed December 17 seem to represent the only kind of coverage The Crimson is willing to give the Objectivist Club's efforts, we feel obliged...
Some German officials argue that the whole fuss was cranked up by the Scientologists "to achieve what we won't give them: tax-exempt status as a religion. This is intimidation, pure and simple." Scientologists campaigned in the U.S. for years before receiving tax exemption in 1993, and Washington has not asked Bonn to grant...
...mean that Harvard is crazy?--advanced standing, pure and simple. The program began in the 1950s in order to allow students with equivalent college credit to graduate from Harvard in three years. While approximately 40 percent of the 650 eligible students intially accept advanced standing, only 30 to 35 students each year actually take full advantage of it and graduate early. I am beginning to understand why this number is so small...
...bureaucrat, Franklin S. Reeder of the Office of Administration, made a valiant effort to keep at least the WhoDB Christmas card list "pure" by making sure it was beyond the reach of party fund raisers. But Reeder lost. Records show that more than 65,000 cards were sent to D.N.C. and Clinton campaign donors, perhaps in the hope they would send back cash...
...also become less enamored with pure intelligence. "I don't think that I.Q. is as fungible as I used to," he says. "To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly...