Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...measurement. Professor Jones uses as the source of the alternating current an audion vacuum tube hooked up with capacities and inductances so that it "howls", in the vernacular of the radio fan, although in this case it might better be described as "singing" because it gives a beautiful pure note of single frequency, and can be made to give any note desired within the range of audibility...
...last century who have falsified the sequence and meaning of past events by their lack of scientific method, their reliance on traditional literature and their wilful neglect of contemporary documents and archaeological evidence. Their day, or rather, their night is over; for the literary dilletante cannot face the pure light of historical truth which emanates from this epoch-making report...
...school. He is inclined to look upon the study of mathematics, physics, or chemistry as something abstract, a kind of preliminary warming up for the real job which is to come later in the professional school. And this conception is not infrequently due to his elders who prate about "pure" science and "applied" science. It seems to him a far cry from the simple steam-engine and the dynamo of his first course in physics, to a fifty thousand kilowatt turbo-generator. Although some of his courses may be labelled "physics" and others "engineering", they are all parts of some...
...obscenity. Photographs of models in postures whose suggestiveness is made possible only by their awkwardness are varied with reproductions of famed paintings that the vulgar can be relied upon to misinterpret. Interspersed are brief sketches in prose under such engaging captions as One Night in a Harem, To the Pure All Things Are Pure...
...waters that surround as, Loving beauty in literature and in art, and seeing the need of it for the delight of life and the refinement of character, he has never allowed his apostleship of beauty to divert him from the pursuit of goodness and truth. His own literary work, pure and simple in style, elevated in feeling, exact and just in thought, has inspired and stimulated not only his own pupils in the great University he has so long adorned, but those also who on both sides of the Atlantic recognize and value sound learning and fine criticism...