Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This taboo, like all others, at times works hardship on the public. It arouses curiosity without allaying it. For example, it was recently news that Philadelphia baseball fans would present Cy Williams with a "new motor car " for his ability as a home-run hitter. Affection it was, pure and simple. Everyone likes to read about affection and, having found it, wants to know how much. Did Philadelphia fans love Cy Williams like a Rolls-Royce or Ford? But for a civil answer the journals said: " A motor...
...which is his own contribution. It was broadcasted throughout England. The years since 1918 he called "the heroic age of physical science," for never before have discoveries of fundamental importance followed each other with such bewildering activity. " No one can draw any sharp line of distinction between so-called pure and applied research. Both are equally essential to progress...
Soviet experts, restoring ancient ikons in the Winter Garden of Moscow's Kremlin, found two, three and even four paintings underlying each other on the same wooden panel, concealed beneath centuries of grime and smoke. The lowest layers showed pure Byzantine work of the 11th Century, antedating the Italian primitives and giving evidence of the sources of inspiration for much early Western...
...April 21), and began experimenting with methods of extracting the secretion. He secured a leave of absence and set up a laboratory in the home of a medical friend in Toronto. The experiments were then so promising that he resigned his position and shortly succeeded in securing a fairly pure extract by tying off the ducts of the pancreas so that the rest of the the gland atrophied and the pancreatic juice (the external secretion) was eliminated. His work then attracted attention at the University of Toronto, and he was offered the use of the Connaught Laboratories there...
...York Tribune: "Fashion show . . . reasonably pure and simple...