Word: element
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student wasn't sure he liked the element of surprise...
...television show derived its humor from one of the mainstays of the comedic tradition--culture clash. Surprisingly, this is the element most lacking in the film. Considering the rich comic potential in sending up the moneyed elite, the movie's shallow and obvious stabs fall flat, as when the Clampetts serve up road kill at a dinner party. (Where do the writers get this stuff...
...book, "The Culture of Disbelief," criticizes Americans' dismissive attitudes towards religion. The widely publicized book has forced many to reassess the position of religion and the religious in our society today. More and more people are deciding that religion is a crucial part of the fabric of America, an element we've been missing...
...colleagues first stunned the research community six years ago by showing that a compound containing the exotic element yttrium could become a superconductor at 98 degrees on the Kelvin scale favored by physicists (that's a not-so-balmy -283 degreesF). That record, broken repeatedly, is now as outdated as the 19-foot pole vault, and last month the contest heated up again. First Chu announced in the journal Nature that a mercury-based compound could superconduct at 153 degreesK (-184 degreesF), a startling 20 degrees higher than the old standard. He got that result by subjecting the material...
...Princeton sophomore who frequents TigerInn and other eating clubs said a masculineatmosphere and an element of "machismo" stillprevail at club events...