Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chiefly the former, for many things Mr. McGraw, myself and millions like us, enjoy today. Without steel pipe, there might be plenty of oil today, but beyond reach. There would be no flivvers for there would be no gasoline. There would be few, if any, modern water works, supplying pure water so inducive to health. Given the water works, employing chemical purifying systems, it requires no imagination to picture the effects of chlorin and other elements upon brass pipe...
Professor Eaton describes the tutorial and lecture systems as mutually interdependent, and would deplore the weakening of either. The pure lecture program gives the student only one form of expression for his ideas,--the written paper. The tutor cannot cover all the detail incidental to a full college course. The ideal solution is a combination of the two in which both written and verbal discussion of his field are available to the student...
...relief. Unless Governor Smith declares himself as a Big Business man, delegates instructed for Senator Reed would, at convention, have only the dwindling barrier of Governor Smith's religion to hurdle, should the Reed candidacy prove less potent than the Smith, and the Reed motives prove truly party-pure...
...Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical stardom, to join the All-American Grand Opera Company in France. Now her cycle returns to Manhattan...
...acts and thinks like a character of Defoe or Smollett. His life is a coarse one spent as a student carousing at a German university, as a musketeer, calloused by army life, and as a wanderer, arrogant one moment and miserable the next. He has a taste of intensely pure and happy married life only to be dashed to the depths of depraved vagabondage. He witnesses the great social changes of his time both from the rank of a nobleman and from the position of a beggar...