Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been enriched--though this has not yet been universally conceded--by the work of Masters, of Sandberg, of Anderson, whose young and engagingly pessimistic view of life has done much to stimulate modern American thought. Its education is of a more immediate turn. There is less of that deliberately pure scholarship which is found in the East, of that ripe appreciation of higher values which comes with maturity...
...Ferguson was a fair inkling. Said '"90": "His [Ferguson's] attitude toward his teachers and studies baffles a dull observer, but in the main it is governed by his predominating intellectual trait. He admires manhood vastly more than scholarship. He has yet to learn the important place pure scholarship holds in the general plan of things. He is sure to learn this in time. If he finds in the scholar the man he is looking for, the scholar can lead him anywhere. But the tremendous forces that have made Ferguson what he is have left him where...
...Know-Nothings get control, it will read: 'As men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where depotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. "Your friend forever, "ABRAHAM LINCOLN...
...Department of Agriculture, charged with administration of the Pure Food and Drugs Act, recently completed its 12,000th seizure and prosecution under that law, since the enactment in 1906. Thereupon it published a general summary of its works, listing the chief kinds of malpractice which it had been called upon to deal with. The 12,000th case had to do with the shipment of 400 cases of eggs, some of them rotten, from Iowa to Illinois. The chief classes of offenses...
...Washington, D. C., a lawyer has started a National Get-Out-the-Vote Club. It is to be a non-partisan body, whose pure purpose will be to get qualified voters to vote. Simon Michelet, the founder, points out that, in the last Presidential election, for every 100 votes cast there were 194 people of voting age qualified to cast votes. He asserted that the voteless voters have increased in recent years and presented figures to show that of all qualified voters 80% cast ballots in 1896, 73% in 1900, 66% in 1908, 62% in 1912, and that...