Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice President-elect was once (1897-1902) Comptroller of the Currency. His brother Henry M. Dawes now holds that post and has for 18 months. Another brother, Beman G. Dawes, is President of the Pure Oil Company. The Dawes's are to be shuffled again. Henry M. offered his resignation to the President last week. He is to take the Pure Oil presidency, and Beman is to be Chairman of the Board of Directors...
...object of the Academy, according to Article 24 of its charter, is stated thus: "The principal function of the Academy shall be to labor with all care and diligence and give certain rules to our language, and to render it pure, eloquent and capable of treating the Arts and Sciences." And, in the famed Letter of the Academy to Cardinal Richelieu, the members proposed "to cleanse the language from the impurities it has contracted in the mouths of the common people, from the jargon of the lawyers, from the misusages of ignorant courtiers and the abuses of the pulpit...
Much as Mr. Arthur D. Little may yearn for a society in which the pure light of reason exercises its true worth, it is highly probable that the power of his newly invented Fifth Estate will remain the hope of an armchair, philosopher...
...eminent present were many. In the procession, on the platform: President Lowell of Harvard; President Garfield of Williams (Amherst's "mother" college) ; Presidents Neilson of Smith, Woolley of Mount Holyoke, Lewis of Massachusetts Agricultural College (all neighbors of Amherst) ; Dean Bouton of the College of Arts and Pure Science, New York University; U. S. Attorney General Stone; U. S. Senator-elect Gillett of Massachusetts; Governor Cox of Massachusetts; Chief Justice Rugg of the State Supreme Court. Came also the Amherst trustees, headed by George A. Plimpton of Manhattan; came recipients of honorary degrees; came scores and scores of alumni...
...will find no rest until he has tabulated the specific gravity of all the sounds from a milligram bird's twitter to a hundred-ton football cheer. Modern ingenuity has learned to "can" music. Certain modern composers have succeeded in extracting the melody from it, and producing compositions of pure noise. Music may be bought by the sheet, the roll, or the disk. Perhaps the time is not far distant when it will be priced like cabbages, at so much a pound...