Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ecuador. Day and night are always of approximately equal length in Ecuador, for it lies astride the equator. The ruling class is of pure Spanish blood, proud and enervated. In consequence almost half the territory which is legally Ecuadorian is actually within a "sphere of influence" impudently maintained by adjoining and militant Peru. Here again, as in Colombia, the factor of altitudes is vital and decisive. Gigantic parallel ranges of mountains, many over four miles high, cut off the nominally sovereign scions of Spain in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, from the vas' hinterland tracts which Peru has quietly...
...James writes from Europe about America and Coolidge in a way that must be applauded by all the debt-dodging nations. The New York Times that prints his writing should be paid advertising rates for 'full position, next to pure reading matter...
...debts of the Mercury are paid, said Editor Mencken; it is showing a profit. Advertisers are faithful and enthusiastic. Imitators of the magazine have turned up, but the Mercurians never fail to "distinguish between the simon pure article and the second best." All enemies have been overcome, even to the "wowsers" of Boston...
Enriched Scientist. Georges Claude of France was the darling of the scientists and businessmen at the coal conference. His discoveries and applications of pure science have made him a rich man. Vast industries depend upon his inventions. He discovered how to dissolve acetylene in acetone; $20,000,000 worth of dissolved acetylene is sold over the world each year. He invented a way of liquefying air; the Air Reduction Co. has 30 plants using his process, is worth $25,000,000. He created neon lamps; cities and airports now glow redly, to his profit. He put waste coke oven gases...
...queen is made out more pure than she was, the king more kind, and the cardinal more fool, Author Barrington has nevertheless caught glitter and tragedy in her engrossing tale of the ominous days before the French Revolution...