Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dreams. The recently organized "Committee on Everyday English", which is associated with the University Extension, has flatly asserted that English is the true tongue of America; and worse still, it intends to "restore the archaic and correct to popular speech until the latter shall become a well of English, pure and undefiled...
...Boston Public Library, it seems, is to play the role of Rebecca. When some disciple of pure English, anxious to struggle out of the habit of saying "atta boy," telephones for help, it will draw forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare...
...Republic, nominated by the Mexican people, to pretend to stain my name. There is more yet. Treacherously and cowardly they have threatened to take my life. What less than that, they start with trying to take away my honor, which I always tried to keep clean and pure. They are trying to prevent a breakdown in the Treasury, but the whole nation knows that for three years I have known how to attend to the necessities of the Administration. . . . The presentation of his [Pani's] libelous statement has the object of covering incompetence to solve the financial problem which...
...Mexican Presidential candidate who has tried to keep his honor "clean and pure...
Rarely has such thorough-going scientific knowledge been coupled with such facilty of practical application. The inexpertness of the men of so-called "pure science" in making the fruits of their labor useful to civilization has resulted in parallel, but until very recently, widely separated growths of Industry and Science; and even now the engineer, who is supposed to bridge the gap, reaches from the side Industry only part way to the edges of Science. It is true that "practical" men have traditionally, at least, scorned the aid of the theorists, for being practical, they had to be shown...