Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this was on a question of pure personalities. There were no live issues, there were no defined policies, The Convention seemed to be nothing but a chance for pseudo-business women, with nothing to do, to get together for a good big yammer. Nor have they accomplished anything, unless the further discrediting of women in politics can be called an accomplishment...
...does not involve a change in the aim of their study. There is an alternative. Instead of setting the college apart by a cross-stratum, taking off the upper layer of scholars, a division might be made vertically. America needs now more than ever, a place for the pure liberal arts, the education that does not prepare for any calling in life except living. For the men who choose that education, who are willing to give the rest of the world a four-year head-start in the race for "success", there should be a place where they can secure...
...Republicans and the Democratic National Committeemen, pure and orthodox, are not the only politicians with an axe to grind on lumps of sugar. Senator Capper of Kansas saw an opportunity of capturing credit for the farm bloc. "Unless the sugar raiders are punished, Congress will be compelled by the farm and progressive blocs to take over...
...been in force for some time and many of the colleges were beginning to show perceptible High Church tinge. But Emmanuel, due to the influence mainly of Chaderton, who still lived there though no longer master, was strongly non-conformist; all the decadent wits of the time rail at "pure Emmanuel". It held itself aloof from the rest of the University, and kept its own council and habits. When the other colleges accepted the inevitable and worshipped according to the king's command. Emmanuel alone refused to conform and probably because of the respect for Chaderton, was not severely penalized...
Kemal has stepped from the crucible of conflicting calumnies with an unstained reputation. Some of these wild reports charged him with being anything from a traitor to his country to being a "foreigner." Kemal is pure Turk (not, as some have said, a Jew) and has proved to the whole world that he is the core of Modern Turkey. He is a fine type of professional soldier, who has earned his laurels by sticking to his calling. Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, in his admirably written book, The Western Question in Greece and Turkey, says of him: "He proved...