Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dominating the country and its politics, we find that the bloc is merely a comparatively small number of representatives of agricultural districts trying to lighten the very numerous trials and tribulations of the farmer by voting as a unit on agricultural questions. The Farm Bloc is a farm bloc pure, plain, and simple-and as such has a very definite place in the political life of the country. As a whole we Americans can get stirred up over very small things, and we have apparently done so in this case. Luckily we possess the compensating ability of being able...
...premature to form now any final judgment upon the highly interesting news from Chicago. Dr. Wendt is a careful and intelligent experimenter, and the presumption is therefore in favor of his conclusion. If he has good reason to believe that he has obtained any considerable amount of helium from pure tungsten, the discovery is very important, and its remote consequences cannot be foreseen...
...times Mr. Alken's poems are almost pure music. Schumann, they remind one of, in their exuberance, their pulsing rhythms and sorrowful, lapsing melodies. Some of them are a little hard to follow, so intricately psychological they seem. But upon each re-reading they grow clearer--like music, honest music, which one hears, and wants to hear, again and again. Always the melody comes suddenly, strong and clear, to catch one at the throat...
...Sing the pure phrase, sweet phrase, clear phrase in the twilight...
...take kindly to education or to work in the De Lucca Mechanical Laboratories where his father was employed, and so on his mother's death, Enrico, aged fifteen, left home and became a scugnizzo, a wandering singer of the streets, singing for a few soldi or for the pure joy of song. He was called "Arichetielli," and soon became known as the best boy singer in Naples. After that comes the story of his swift rise to fame, too familiar now to need repeating here...