Word: purest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been discovered. The machine has performed so well that Dr. Lawrence now wants a bigger one. He considers it entirely feasible to build a 2,000-ton cyclotron - costing only $750,000-which will hurl atomic bullets at energies up to 200,000,000 volts. Atom-smashing, once the purest of pure sciences, is already edging toward practicability, especially in cancer therapy and other biological research (TIME, July 10). A 2,000-ton machine, manufacturing radioactive chemicals in large quantities, might even turn atom-smashing industrial...
...this maxim also holds true--a questionnaire sent to 1,856 men brought striking answers to the paternal collapse. Princeton men sighed over their "inability to have more children" and their "limited financial means." For the first reason, Harvard has nothing but a raised eyebrow. For the second--that purest of emotions, pity. With a comforting arm around the Tiger's tweedy shoulders, we note with care that he earns $6,600 per year, higher than any other college average...
...cyclotron is a type of atom-smasher which speeds atomic projectiles up to enormous energies by whirling them in magnetic fields. When the University of California's smart, jovial Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented it about a decade ago, it was used for the purest sort of research in experimental physics. Three years ago the cyclotron switched from pure science to practical science when it was discovered that beams of neutrons produced by the cyclotron destroyed cancer cells in mice. A regular program of medical cyclotron work was set afoot, in charge of the inventor's brother...
...William Blake impressed his parents at the age of four by seeing God's head in the window. No mere precocity, this faculty of imaginative vision remained his extraordinary endowment throughout life. Before he was 20 he learned the craft of engraving and wrote his Poetical Sketches, the purest lyric poetry of the century. At 24 he married a girl who could neither read nor write. Blake might have had worldly advancement but it scared him. In 1795, when someone got him the offer of a post as Tutor in Drawing to the Royal Family, he not only declined...
...theatre, but are merely trying to rid ourselves of those customs which are nothing more nor less than bad habits. Such frills as unnecessary scenery and lavish costumes are those evils we are combatting. In this way, we hope that we may bring the theatre back to its purest form...