Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have wonders here which I doubt can be equaled anywhere. For instance, we have wells here in Calhoun County, W. Va. that produce pure gasoline, that is pumped by machinery from the deep wells. Can Ohio match this? (They've 'flowed' for a while...
Further compliments to M. Tchitcherin included reference to his "nervous mind," his "preference for bad over good sources of information," and his "malevolent bias which makes pure invention the basis or support of his policy...
Only in the Tintoret and in one of the Rubens is there a suggestion of a purely academic point of view. But in these, no such effort is required to translate them into good humor as is the case with the drawings of the weignty School of Michelangelo. We believe that the good humor is carried through the entire exhibition, through the chiaroscurists Guardi, Tiepolo, Poussin, and Rembrandt, through the lyricism of Corot, through the tortures of Grnenewald, to culminate in pure humer in Breughel. Pisanelio may seem, at first thought, to be purely nonsensical, but with longer inspection...
...morning and afternoon. At 12 o'clock in Robinson Hall, Professor Conant will speak to Fine Arts 3b on "Roman Temples". Augustus found Rome of brick and left it of marble, and much of his building activity was devoted to carving shrines to the gods. Contrasted with the pure spirituality of the Greek temples, the religious structures seem the product of a more decadent age, but nevertheless, they offer to the eye and mind of a sympathetic student a subject worthy of some little attention...
...first time Mr. Macfadden had been haled to court in years. His first arrest was in 1901, when Federal authorities got after the posters for one of his early beauty shows (a modest affair in tights but warm for its day). At that time the pure zeal of a reformer burned in Mr. Macfadden. He was but seven years away from his native Missouri. Like Theodore Roosevelt, he had built himself up from a weazened shrimp to a powerful athlete. He was as militant as any Irishman with an undigested dose of religion. His faith was physique...