Word: element
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose chief function was simply to unload; then came the salesman who again tried more or less to unload the product, but who usually sought to do a more intelligent job than had previously been done. As business has developed the purchasing agent has come into being, the service element has been stressed, sales methods developed for the benefit of the retailer, until now the term "travelling representative" is much more fact than fiction. Manufacturers today seek to keep the good will of the purchaser, and try in every way to keep him satisfied...
From the very nature of the case a great many of the new minorities belong to Germany racially, and here again one has to deal with highly cultured elements which are unwilling to accept oppression without remonstrance. Leaving aside the German element in Alsace-Lorraine, which is largely French in sentiment, the most important German minorities are those in southern Tyrol, under Italian domination, in Czecho-slovakia, in Polish Silesia, and in the region, of the Polish corridor. In the treaties by which the new states of eastern Europe were recognized or established, provisions were made for the interests...
...necessary to create a new society in Cambridge? What is there new in the situation that calls for such a radical step? The new element is the gradual evolution of Harvard from a compact New England academy in a quiet town to a cosmopolitan university within eight minutes of the center of an urban population of some two million souls. Harvard life has become diversified and shot through with every sort of human interest and divergent aim so that an individual student can see only a small portion of it all. He cannot see the woods for the trees. Life...
Continuing its effort of the last few years to eliminate the element of chance in gridiron contests, the national football rules committee announced yesterday that the chief result of a three-day secret session in Atlantic City was the adoption of a radical new rule making fumbled balls dead at the point of recovery, when recovered by the defensive team...
...team of vaudeville sisters, in love with her partner's fiance (Charles King),makes theatrical and eventually frustrated gestures toward self-sacrifice, you see how Director Beaumont has tried casually and hastily to achieve the authenticity of certain stage productions of similar subject matter. The best element is Bessie Love. Though limited by her lines, this oldtime and of late not very conspicuous star gives one of the finest speaking performances thus...