Word: purely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever dictators want to wash dirty political linen, they run it through a plebiscite, and it comes out pure as Ivory Soap. Last week Soviet Russia made it perfectly clear that Eastern Poland had all along pined to be invaded. While the Moscow press carefully emphasized that there was complete freedom of opinion at the polls, Poles, Ukrainians and White Russians flocked to voting places and cast ballots for candidates for the new National Assemblies (Soviets) of Western Ukraine and White Russia...
...force on the solid rock of undergraduate support of the team and its coaches. Those who are closest to the team, the students of the College, have only the highest praise for Dick Harlow and the spirit of the players he works with. With this spirit, it is not pure wishful thinking to expect that the rest of the season will show a decided improvement. Last year the Princeton game was the turning-point, and it may well prove to be so again this year. The team probably senses that this is the feeling of the great mass of undergraduates...
Biology, Chemistry, and Physics have all increased their concentration enrollment reversing the trend of the last decade from the pure sciences. These sciences and the two newly established fields of Architectural Sciences and Indic Philology have taken up some of the slack caused by the decrease in the Social Sciences...
...necessarily mix. But the unseemly haste with which the evacuation began suggested that here was a complicating detail of his new policy which the Führer had overlooked until the last minute, and that, far from being planned, the transfer was the result of pure immediate necessity. Germany has long considered the Baltic a "German lake." Friendship with Joseph Stalin evidently comes high...
...higher education and its severest critic, nine years ago founded the Institute for Advanced Study, where topflight scholars (well subsidized by a $5,000,000 endowment provided by Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld) might devote themselves to the pursuit of pure learning. He brought to his Institute, housed in Princeton, N. J., Albert Einstein, a group of promising Ph.D.s. This month Dr. Flexner saw his Institute (now richer by $3,000,000) move into its own building, Fuld Hall, on Princeton's outskirts. This week, 72 and ailing, Dr. Flexner retired as the Institute...