Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stratton succeeds Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, former President of Dartmouth and Director of pure science in the Nela Research Laboratories, who served as President of Tech for a few months in 1921 but was compelled to resign on account of ill health. In the interregnum the Institute has been administered by Elihu Thomson, famed inventor of electric welding, who is one of its trustees. M. I. T. has specialized in electrical engineering and is the chief training school for the general staff of the industry in America. Stratton will cause no break in the succession of electric experts...
...profits from this illegal and underhanded practice in two ways. In the first place, he charges interest on $8,000 to the customer, when he is not actually borrowing money to carry his stocks at all, since he has already sold them out. This "interest" is, of course, all pure profit. In the second place, if the market declines, either the customer, discouraged by the decrease in his margin which this causes, orders the stocks sold, or else the bucketeer sells him out when his margin has become exhausted. If, for example, the customer buys 10 shares of Steel...
...Raymond Poincare, wife of the Premier of France: " In retaliation for the reputed French annexation policy in the Rhineland, a Cologne newspaper printed an involved analysis of my family tree concluding that I am ' a pure product of old German stock and really belong to Germany.' The long intermingling of nationalities in Alsace-Lorraine is the basis of this claim...
...Laying aside your arms now is an act of patriotism as exalted and pure as your valor in taking them...
...consequence many small things have been happening to dispel mutual hatred: a Union Club for Americans and Panamanians has been opened, and the ladies of Panama meet American army officers, and learn that all Americans are not ostentatious and moneyed " barbarians.'' Americans learn that lack of " pure Caucasian blood" does not necessarily imply inferiority or grossness...