Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intensive study of the relationship between cancer and cigarette smoking, it was clearly a breakthrough. Searching for the element in cigarette tar that causes cancers on mice (and, presumably, lung cancer in man), U.S. and Canadian scientists had narrowed the field to an identifiable fraction...
Overweight, sinister cats that look more like lions are a trademark of David Berger, one of the finest young painters to be seen in Cambridge. They are one disturbing element in a world otherwise ruled by gaiety and love. A small cat lurks in the background where young lovers sleep, peering like douanier Rousseau's tiger, an ominous and imposing reality. In another instance a group of cats prey like vultures around the form of a young girl who is sleeping amidst a bacchanalian dance in the forest. Mr. Berger saves his naive world by this grace. If one lives...
...NCAA had publicly renounced its "machine." Feeling among the officials seemed to favor a return to the old methods. But such feeling is not only absurd; it is dangerous. The "machine" failed, not because a machine must fail, but because it still relied on the highly fallible human element. Until the NCAA comes up with a fully automatic judging mechanism, confusion will continue to plague its competitions
...French government has proposed a liberal program, the basic element of which is a search for new arrangements for the continued coexistence of the French and Moslem communities, new arrangements to be freely arrived at by discussion between the chosen leaders of the Moslem com munity and the French community in Algeria. The French government has solemnly promised free elections for the purpose of choosing these leaders. But we all know that elections cannot take place while disorder reigns. Hence we in the U.S. fervently hope that peace and order will come soon to the Algerian countryside . . . My countrymen have...
...three times a year the editors of the CRIMSON allow their vociferous, if small, dissenting element to speak. While his opinions are of doubtful validity, his verbal power cannot be overlooked. Mr. Royce was raised on an apple farm, but ran away from home seven years ago. Since then he has served two years in the army and five years as an undergraduate at Harvard. He served in Korea during the recent conflict, but wasn't much use. His grandfather was a philosopher. His father...