Word: purely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aimlessly about the Italian countryside "on a sightseeing trip," wondering what to do with a 6 ft. by 24 ft. tapestry called Ocean Is Turbulent, which it had taken 4,060 Japanese craftsmen three years to make out of 2,450 bunches of gold thread and 85 shades of pure silk thread, and which the emissaries had expected to give Herr Hitler for his living room wall...
Between 15 and 19, Arthur Rimbaud wrote poetry whose slashing irony and pure music still influence poets. At 19 he wrote Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell), an obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend...
...definition, the aim of science is not to produce but to know. Thus many "pure" scientists, who pursue knowledge for its own sake, do not consider the industrial and military technologists who apply other people's knowledge as scientists at all. The application may be far removed from the original discovery. For example, phosgene, which was first used as a military weapon in World War I, was first made by British Chemist John Davy...
When the first World War broke over Europe in 1914, the physicists at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, famed citadel of pure science, scattered to Government Service, as they will doubtless do in 1939. But during the first World War the late revered Lord Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's internal structure, stuck to his post. He was on the verge of splitting the atom. When a committee of scientists sought his help on a method for submarine detection, he put them off by saying that if he could prove atomic disintegration it would be more important...
...Russia (sent the following day): cease mobilization in twelve hours or Germany will fight. Stock exchanges in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, St. Petersburg were already closed in panic. But the London Exchange had had business as usual that Thursday. Many a U. S. businessman waved away Wilhelm's ultimatum as "pure bluff." At 23 Wall Street Mr. Morgan & friends emerged from meeting after three hours, confident there would be no World War. They announced the New York Exchange would remain open as long as there were buyers. Then they left dank Manhattan...