Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While brooding in a public bath over a question posed to him by King Hiero of Syracuse-how to determine whether the King's crown was made of pure gold-Archimedes hit on the answer, jumped up, ran home naked, shouting "Eureka!" (I have found it.) The solution: by weighing the crown under water, Archimedes easily determined how much heavier it was than water, compared the result with the known specific gravity of pure gold. A floating body, he went on to show, displaces its own weight in water...
...vast scheme of national defense and of its astronomical cost of about $10 billion a year [TIME, Feb. 25]. And you raise the question: is it American? May I, one of the few German anti-militarists, give you an answer? Surely it's not American. It is pure Prussian militarism. . . . Generals and admirals are not in the habit of retiring willingly from their gilded honors into grey civilian life. The American people were able to create within two years the finest and most powerful army, navy and air force ever seen in history, besides stuffing their Allies with...
Gorky saw disciples flocking to tell the Master how pure they had become since following his teachings. To Gorky's mind they all had "boneless perspiring hands and lying eyes"; Tolstoy himself rose above them like a "noble belfry." Once when a disciple was discussing the state of his soul, Tolstoy "leant over and said to me in a low voice: 'He's lying, all the time, the rogue, but he does it to please me.' " The state of Tolstoy's own soul puzzled Gorky greatly. "I could never believe that he was an atheist...
...typical pile is a 20-foot block of graphite (pure carbon) interlarded with lumps of fissionable uranium. The chain begins with the capture of a neutron by a uranium atom. When the atom "fishes" (splits by fission), neutrons released by the reaction fly off at more than 6,000 miles a second. To give the neutrons a maximum chance of being captured by other uranium atoms, they are slowed to "thermal" speed-roughly 3 m.p.s. Normally a neutron slows down to that speed after about 110 collisions with carbon atoms...
...Albert was reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Soon he discovered Schopenhauer and Nietzsche...