Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scientists closed their classes and laboratories last week, and hastened to Manhattan for the regular Christmas convocation of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some 2,000 had papers to read on their 15 specialties.* Reading those papers, the mosaic of 1928 developments in pure and applied science, would place the workers on little eminences among their colleagues. Better, it would put them near the Olympians of their profession who attended sessions with them, men like...
Editor Blumenfeld elaborated: "This deadly [U.S.] 'gin' has ruined more homes, wrecked more young lives and showered more misery on a great and generously minded country than years of straightforward drunkenness on pure spirits ever witnessed during the generations before prohibition bit itself into the nation's vitals...
...every once in a while to keep us amused. But he has not done it as well as it has been done many times before. He has also chosen to have his characters release certain ponderous sayings from time to time, to keep the play out of the pure comedy class. These dicta are sound but not better said than countless others have said them. In other words, "Caprice" while an amusing play is one which falls considerably short of being worthy stuff either as parlor comedy or as straight social problem drama...
Racially Chileans are extremely pure, far purer than the people who seethe in the famed U. S. melting pot. Emigration to Chile has been negligible for centuries. Therefore the nationalism of Chile is like that of Prussia or France, concentrated, organized and militant...
...Morgantown hills around the University is fine glass sand. The state's glass and glassware industry, with $50,000,000 production yearly, looks to the laboratories for pure research in glassmaking...