Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pure cussedness none of them had ever seen anything like the job they had to do. The Army was everywhere, from Fort Dix to Chungking, from Reykjavik to Port Darwin. Country boys in khaki, with the hayseed barely combed out of their hair, soldiered at Khorram Shar within hiking distance of the muddy confluence of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Officers who had never been off the pavements set up camps on atolls in the Pacific or led men through the drifting fogs of the Aleutians to new homes that must be built. In the miasmas of Surinam...
...Henderson (with his assistant, Howard Haggard) invented a gas mask, but his greatest scientific work is his research on respiration. Physiologists long believed that asphyxiation was caused by lack of oxygen plus an accumulation of "poisonous" carbon dioxide in the body. The old method of resuscitation was to pump pure oxygen into lungs. But this method was seldom successful. Professor Henderson proved that carbon dioxide in small amounts is really an essential breathing stimulant, introduced an O 2 -CO 2 mixture which is used today in all hospitals, saves an estimated 25,000 newborn babies every year...
...trouble is in man himself. Man has been surpassed by his machines. Even pure oxygen cannot ward off bad muscular coordination; and the body and brain become weary, slow down above 35,000 to 40,000 ft. The human body, which lives a hand-to-mouth existence at any altitude, stores up little or no oxygen. The greatest hazard for altitude airmen is their conviction that they are perfectly all right when a reduced oxygen supply actually makes them act silly...
Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, with a beard "as pure as driven snow", George Lyman Kittredge retired in 1935, and his death last year leaves a gap in literary scholarship that no other authority can protend to fill. His "English 2; Six Plays" of Shakes peare, which he insisted on spelling "Shakespeare", was one of the most famous courses in the country...
...lady's request, one day, Bernadette swallowed some of the damp cave mud (and vomited); the mud became an abundant spring. That spring, according to scientific analysis, is pure drinking water; but in it, a few days later, a paralytic baby in the spasms of death was immersed, recovered, and lived to see Bernadette sainted 75 years later in the greatest 20th-century feast of the Roman Church...