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Word: pureness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students of lacrosse made out of the game, originally a gruesome and dangerous contest, the modern popular sport. The ancient Indian war game was a relic of pure savagery. The players often died from exhaustion, due to frenzied exertion, and the wounds they inflicted upon each other in order to make more keen their interest in the play. The goal posts were miles apart. One side attacked, and the other defended. Aside from this, there was no strategy involved; victory depended purely upon the individual endurance, courage, and stamina of the players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LYDECKER, LACROSSE COACH, FINDS INCREASING INTEREST IN GAME DUE TO GREAT INNOVATIONS | 5/4/1926 | See Source »

Clay-Eating. Mistresses who, with mystification, have watched their colored maids, newly migrated from the South, gather clay from the back yard and then chew it, learned last week from inveterate conners of the Journal of the American Medical Association that pure clay, kaolin, kept in motion with fluids, is beneficial in Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, chronic ulcerative colitis and acute enteritis. In some cases the clay carries away intestinal bacteria, in others mixes with their toxic products. The Journal warns inexact thinkers that many other supposedly beneficial effects of clay-eating are spurious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medicine Notes, May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Authoress Paterson proceeds in logical and conscientious style, preferring individually striking incidents to suspense. None should be deceived by the jacket blurb implying that this is a work of 'pure literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Masterson | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...instruction that is given has a practical application. There is no glimmer anywhere of pure knowledge or pure science. In spite of the fact that this system scarcely seems promising of eventual success to a Westerner, it has shown fairly good results so far. The rising generation is certainly far better educated than its totally ignorant predecessors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURSES UNKNOWN TO SOVIETS-BEST | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

...Huxley lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. No U.S. scientist save Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard (in 1908) had been so honored. It was recognition, gratifying indeed, of Dr. Hrdlicka's whole career, and in particular of his earth-circling trip last year when he discovered a pure American Indian type among Asian aborigines; noted scattered strains of Negrito stock as far apart as India, Africa and the Philippines; studied towheaded Negroes in Australia; found fossils of a new type of big ape in the Siwalik Hills of Burma; a new place (the Solo Valley) to dig for remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Medal | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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