Word: purely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pure & simple Lindbergh when, with his wife and Mr. & Mrs. Lewis, he repaired to the Carlton Hotel suite in Washington where MBS, NBC and CBS had set up their microphones. He greeted all the announcers and technicians, with his mechanic's eye pried into the electrical arrangements, wanted particularly to know whether telephones would be ringing during the broadcast...
...example, the men who did the original work on photoelectricity, the phenomenon that now magically opens restaurant and railway station doors and performs a thousand sorting jobs in industry, were all pure scientists. And the man who first clarified photoelectricity by describing it mathematically was none other than Albert Einstein...
Some farsighted industrial laboratories have long since recognized the value of pure science. At the General Electric laboratories, Irving Langmuir was told by the director not to bother with practical applications, but to find out what he could about what went on inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp. Thereafter Langmuir spent three years "investigating facts," discovered some-for example, that a bulb filled with nitrogen or argon works better than an evacuated bulb-which now save electricity consumers several million dollars...
...people's short stories and in his own. Then there are 35 stories in which the reader meets, briefly but none too briefly, about twice that many strictly American heels. Some are heels because they are young and dumb, some because they are trapped and tired. Some are pure heels, like the prep schoolteacher who enjoys frightening a 13-year-old boy. The Hollywood heels are the worst, comprising several of O'Hara's most excruciating women and zoological men. The author's nearest approach to liking (not very near) is reserved for: an old barber...
...widely about him. Some, like Ralph Roeder (The Man of the Renaissance), consider Machiavelli an Italian patriot and his Prince a kind of Mein Kampf of Italy's struggle for unity. Others, like Author Valeriu Marcu, consider Machiavelli a single-track political mind whose curious obsession with the pure mechanics of power is his first-class ticket to genius...