Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sought out by reporters, Samuel Insull will speak of that evening, of the magazine. He adds, in matter-of-fact tone, that it was pure chance that made him answer an advertisement in which one Col. George E. Gourard announced his desire for a secretary. Colonel Gourard represented the Edison interests in London. Samuel Insull was a good secretary. When Mr. Edison needed a secretary, Colonel Gourard recommended him. So began one of the most important combinations in U. S. business...
...embraced life itself. Now, the saints he loved throng the Prado at Madrid and other museums. St. Sebastian, who wears in his great beard the majesty of childhood; St. Jerome, with his riven ribs; grave St. Judas Tadeo, staff in hand; bushy St. Simon with a book; St. Maurice, pure and warlike, standing under the banners among the soldiers of the Theban Legion and, again and again, St. Francis, friend of birds and lepers, upon whose still and mocking face broods the strange gaiety of holiness. St. Martin, among the holy men, rides on a white horse...
...those who, for altruistic reasons or for a pure wish for excitement, might decide to establish a university, would come all sorts of perplexing problems relative to the spiritual and academic welfare of the embryonic student body, but there would also arise questions regarding more intimately the welfare of that body itself...
With the emphasis which, in late years especially, has been laid on the whole question of so-called "Nordic supremacy", there comes up more actively than ever the complicated and well-nigh insolvable problem of rare mixtures. Do, as a general thing, groups of people of pure race, pure race, pure Nordic or pure Hebraic for example, exhibit stronger and more vital characteristics than other groups which might be composed of mixtures of these two races...
...consider Mr. Bausman's thesis. The Allies engineered the war, which Germany did not seek, but rather tried to fend off, and the British by almost ingenious propaganda infected the pure American air so successfully that Wilson himself, suspicious as he was of the Allies' war aims, succumbed and led the United States to war. Mr. Bausman concludes that the delay of this action till 1917 was at least a negative blessing, as an earlier entry would have meant the triumph of Russian arms and Russian preponderance in Europe. Finally, when the Allies triumph with America's inestimable aid, they...