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...rarely praised medical scientist. More than half the professors of anatomy, physiology, bacteriology and biochemistry are not, said he, medical men in the strict old-fashioned sense. This means "that the medical sciences are becoming increasingly autonomous and important in their general relations, and that they are becoming 'purer,' by which we mean that their main objectives are theoretical and fundamental, rather than practical and applied." He made this modest prediction: "We should, each one of us, like to discover at once a cure for cancer, or for tuberculosis, but I venture to say that the final determining...
...inherit the family estates. Daisy finally smoothed things out. "I persuaded him to give in; surely no God would wish him to give up everything, all his future and position, for religion, when the Protestant religion is after all very like the Catholic and perhaps, in a way, purer and grander be- cause of its very simplicity...
Advantages pointed out for the new method, over the pressure method devised by the ancient Chinese: no great expense for initial plant installation, no expert labor required, low maintenance cost. The resulting oil is purer than that recovered by other methods, and the residue in the vats makes an almost predigested cattle food, superior to the "cake" derived by other methods...
...Edinburgh Review was the first magazine of its kind in the United Kingdom. Punster Sydney Smith, its first editor, aimed "to erect a higher standard of merit, and secure a bolder and a purer taste in literature, and to apply philosophical principles and the maxims of truth and humanity to politics." The Review was originally Whig; its cover, buff and blue, always proclaimed its old faith...
Racially Chileans are extremely pure, far purer than the people who seethe in the famed U. S. melting pot. Emigration to Chile has been negligible for centuries. Therefore the nationalism of Chile is like that of Prussia or France, concentrated, organized and militant...