Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...edifice is built in pure Flemish Renaissance style (Rubens), the material being of white stone and red brick, with a roof of blue slate. The project to rebuild the entire library owes its inception to the efforts of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and the National Committee of the United States...
...Church Times (London) declared, in effect, that the London stage is now nearly as pure as need...
...Countess Karolyi, granddaughter of this famous statesman, was once considered to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. The beginning and the end of Karolyi's influence in politics lies between October 31, 1918, and March 22. 1919. It has been written of him that he is the "Pure Fool of Hungary with the accent on the pure." Recently the Budapest Supreme Court confiscated his lands, finding him guilty of high treason. There is no question of accents. Karolyi is either a fool or a traitor; most probably a fool: At the end of October, 1918, he formed...
Jane Addams: "Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, said of me, apropos of my illness in Japan: 'If pure goodness, unselfishness and devotion count in Heaven, as we believe they do, Jane Addams will have a seat in front of Washington, Jefferson and many others, and very likely next to Lincoln...
...Stratton's inaugural address on " The Effect of Science in the Evolution of Industry," he demonstrated the economic wisdom of generous support for research in pure science. He said that the automotive industry must find a substitute for gasoline, on which the elder Edison commented that the electric storage battery has already filled the bill. Edison looks for all transportation and industry to be electrified: " You never saw a motorman tinkering around under his streetcar...