Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...side did their best to foster tills mad spirit in the ranks of their enemies with the hope of breaking down their morale and making victory nearer and easier for themselves. But now that the war is over, and people generally are slowly coming to their senses the revolutionary element is finding that its room is desired far more than its company...
...aside from the sporting element contained in such an affair, its effect on the public would be very great. Aviation would be thrust upon people in a new and pleasing light, tending to create a strong sentiment throughout the country for placing this industry on its proper footing. Since the government refuses to help aviation by its failure to pass the fifteen million dollar appropriation fund, all stimulus must come from private sources. And which of these latter are more suited for the task than the colleges...
...terror in Russia has ceased. It ceased six months ago. All the energy of the government has turned to constructive work; the better element is coming to the front. To these facts testify abundantly men recently returned from Russia: journalists like Frazier Hunt, Robert Minor, and Isaac Don Levine, relief workers like Wilfred Humphries of the American Red Cross, military envoys like Captain Sadoul, and government emissaries and agents like William Bullitt and Raymond Robbins. All these men are opposed to intervention in Russia; Herbert Asquith is opposed to it; Mr. President, after your early utterances...
...element of time, of course, makes the process inapplicable to newspaper work. The necessity of doing one column at a time, the two operations necessary in engraving as compared to the one of the linotype machine, and, finally, the necessity of recopying an entire page of manuscript if the proofreader discovers one or two typograhpical errors, all combine to make the process longer than the requirements of a modern newspaper press demand. Another restriction is that the process cannot be used for the better grade of book work. The uneveness of the right margin, which I mentioned, and the difficulty...
Between the Scylla of Radical Americanization and the Charybdis of Reactionary Americanization lies the only safe course the country can pursue, Radicalism disjoints, conservatism retards progress. The Americanism which most of us are prepared to support is not the monopoly of any political party; it is that element in all political parties which causes them to work--in so far as they do work--for the national benefit as they understand it. It is not learned entirely from books, nor can it all be put into words. Americanization has been defined as the "grafting of the best ideals...