Word: purer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should I desire the presence of a band to blare its fulsome farewells into my ears; the true aesthetic vagabond must ever shrink from occasions of such banal blasts and boomings. But at 10 o'clock this morning I shall be in the Music Building to hear the finer, purer strains of Brahms' Violin Sonata when it is played in Professor Spalding's Music...
...thousands of men and women will press this book to their bosoms with thanksgiving. Its morals, its figures of Vice and Virtue, could not be made clearer if they were printed in the block capitals and bright colors of a primer. The readers are practically certain to live purer, finer, braver lives afterwards, as are the millions, too unenlightened to buy the book, who will see it at the cinema...
...Purer water, increasing the supply to a billion gallons a day; better police and fire protection; cleaner streets; improved health conditions--Contributing to New York City's conspicuous place among the safest and healthiest cities in the world...
Whatever the reasons, Mr. Dyar's example may prove of value to everyone. Even the college undergraduate, weary of intellectual work which seems unending, may turn to an humbler and a purer diversion in his spare time by assisting the workmen in the Yard. In which case it may be proved that the person who last spring lighted the fire in Massachusetts Hall was neither a criminal nor a lunatic, but a philanthropic psychologist of unusually far and reaching vision...
What Shall Children Be Told About War? Education has always consisted of an alloy of education and propaganda; and there is no evidence that more scientific methods have produced a purer product. At a recent conference of Congregationalists in Massachusettes, a resolution was proposed looking to the education of children in the sinfulness " of attempting to settle international disputes by means of war." There was apparently a good deal of discussion as to the proper form of words and the convention refused to resolve that children should be brought up " to the idea of the futility and wrong...