Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winnemac, the itch was inflamed to an ache, a passion for pure science and meticulous laboratory research. The purposes of Arrowsmith's contemporaries were shoddy, sloppy (there was a beefy Bible-banger, a medical Babbitt, an icy, calculating dollar-chaser). And even stronger than Arrowsmith's reactions against these was his love for the lonely, sardonic genius of the school, Max Gottlieb, Mephistophelian German Jew, brilliant immunologist, pure scientist...
...Thin Ice. The crook world has a woman's pure love showered on it again. This cinema unfolds the manner in which an artful dodger, Tom Moore by name, has his seedy character disinfected by artless Edith Roberts. To regain some lost bank loot through her, a gang of robbers plant Moore in her confidence as her long-lost brother-and romance becomes imperative. Still, it's much better than it sounds...
...about that time. Under their regime, the Cathedral was to be French Romanesque outside and Byzantine inside. "Ralph Adams Cram took over the work in June, 1911. The trustees ordered him not to go on with the old plan. He is the architect of the present model which is pure Gothic...
...their day; yet the conviction is now widespread that their's was a terribly warped and limited existence, and not a pattern to be copied. It would be a mistake to attribute too much sour-grape sentiment to the average undergraduate who refuses to do obeisance to a pure "Rank List" ideal. The ideal college man is an earnest student--but he is more than that. He would be a man--full and complete man--but the "Rank List" ideal too often produces only partial men, great heads on puny bodies, mere walking and talking dictionaries of facts with...
...truth of the matter is, however, that this inefficiency is inherent in a democratic state. Devise any scheme which separates the law making body from constant dependence on the mass of the people, and the result is a trend away from the principles of pure democracy. And it is upon those theories that the whole framework of American government is based. Its evils must be accepted with its blessings...