Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main choice which a prospective science concentrator must make, once he has decided that he wants to study his sciences against the broad background of a liberal arts college like Harvard, lies between the engineering and the so-called pure sciences. Broadly speaking, the emphasis in the latter is upon the theoretical, in the former upon the practical application of those theories...
...between engineering and pure science becomes great only beyond the elementary stage, and there are many cases of students who transfer, for example, from physics to an engineering science as late as their Junior or even the beginning of their Senior year...
...thought the Traveler's "unfair" story would increase the number of Boston readers which far exceed the reported 200,000, he boasted. It is undeniable that the appeasers are anxious that Coughlin's paper should be more widely read. It is equally undeniable that the distributors of this "pure American" magazine know they have something to hide when they block the view of its sale and kick photographers' cameras around the street...
Some reactionaries, no doubt the same ones who are against opera in English or Goodman playing Mozart, don't like the choral movement merely because it is choral, and therefore not "pure" music. In this particular movement, however, Beethoven used his chorus symphonically, thus keeping the musical design intact, and making good use of the vibrant sonority of the human voice which remains the most basically expressive of all musical instruments...
...they had lost none of their nerve, they even demanded priorities on mining equipment to meet the new war-industry demand for silver-at twice the already artificial market price. Hard-hitting American Metal Market (trade organ) found a word for it in O. Henry: "The legitimate ethics of pure swindling...