Word: purest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Potato. The first routine was purest comedy-a sort of take-off on that old kids' game, hot potato. With a first down on the Pittsburgh five, Tittle pitched back to Gifford, who started around left end. Oops! Too many Steelers. So Gifford lateraled to Center Greg Larson, who looked at the ball and lateraled to Y. A. Tittle, who looked at the Steelers again. Now, Tittle is no coward, but there are no 37-year-old fools in pro football, either. Back it went to Gifford, who was now over on the right sideline looking for someplace...
According to Perry, "bull in pure form is rare; there is usually some contamination by data." But even in its purest form, bulling "expresses an important part of what a pluralist university holds dear, surely a more important part than the collecting of 'facts that are facts,' which schoolboys learn...
They did not carry long rifles or travel in prairie schooners, and there was not a Daniel Boone in the lot. They were peddlers. In their 140-lb. packs, they carried free enterprise in its purest form to the frontier. Inexpensive needles, thread, piece goods, fancy notions, buttons and furbelows, even snake oil, but these were what the pioneers needed - the thousand tiny common denominators of civilization. Most ended with little more than sore feet. But some who began as peddlers created American business dynasties: Samuel Pels of Fels-Naptha soap, Department Store Founders Adam Gimbel, Benjamin Altman and Marshall...
...Nazis got quick cash ransoms from Jews who were forced to quit the country. When Rajakowitsch formally applied to join the SS, Eichmann wrote a warm letter recommending him as "somebody who puts himself at the disposal of the cause with heart and soul, a National Socialist of the purest race...
Does old Sinclair have more than an inkling of his own character? A sonnet he chooses to quote suggests that he does. "Child." apostrophizes Poet Harry Kemp, whose ear, like Sinclair's own, was of purest...