Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are apparently strange words from a pure scientist. Yet Professor Pupin's position and experience merely serve to give them greater weight. Science has made the world smaller, bringing about multifarious political factions. Perhaps it is now going to find a method to eliminate these frictions by establishing a fraternity of science in an age when the fraternity of religion is at best a remembrance. At least any efforts made in that direction will receive the cooperation of intelligent minds scientific or other wise...
...book takes the form of a long letter to Cartoonist Clarence Day Jr., in which Mr. Ward exposes a great many exhibitions of thobbing, past and present: Upton Sinclair and his reforming ilk; all Moral Laws and Categorical Imperatives, since they involve a thing called "conscience" unknown to pure science; all sociological dialectics; all philosophical disquisitions and systems., even the most materialistic, since they all promise but never perform modifications of the genus Homo; all religions, calling as they do for the exercise of powers unknown to physics, mathematics and biology; all psychology?even behaviorism, from which the "psyche...
Although this was her first big hit, it was only one of man. She has had nine plays produced on Broadway, among them "Naughty Marietta," "Maytime," and "Little Old New York." The same qualities of lightness, clever humor, and deft characterizations, all of which contribute most to pure entertainment, have distinguished her later plays as they did "Brown of Harvard...
Sunday afternoon I went for a walk. To which succinct statement of pure and unadulterated fact you may reply, "What of it?"--or if you are a member of the Watch and Ward Society--"What in it?" Well, I'll permit you, but on one condition: that you tell me just why I met so many people with cameras and kodaks and the urge to use them. Before I had gone two blocks I felt like the man in the moving picture who wanted to find someone in a Ford. Fords--I mean cameras, were everywhere. Little girls tripped...
Sunday afternoon I went for a walk. To which statement of pure and unadulterated fact you may reply, "What...