Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Future Shylocks or Scrooge McDucks, however, will find their element on the business board with its $100,000 annual gross...
...Deputies demanded that the government slap down Montemarano's mayor for putting on the vulgar demonstration. At week's end, Adonis drifted up to Rome on a little junket. Roman cops nabbed him in the outskirts of the city, told him he was a "socially undesirable element," handed him a oneway ticket back to Montemarano...
...back on the sidelines with a torn knee ligament. In a sense, the accidents were inevitable. The traditional contests, with which the games began in ancient Greece, strain muscle and mind, but rarely endanger life. Only since the Olympics moved to the mountains have they acquired a real element of danger...
Biggest handicap to progress in the peaceful uses of atomic energy, said the report, is Government-imposed secrecy. It recommended that the Atomic Energy Commission "remove all reactor technology from the restricted data category, including such areas as fuel element fabrication and processing techniques," and keep secret only the military applications of atomic energy. As it is, private enterprise lacks the information on which it can make intelligent decisions, e.g., a utility might invest heavily in a nuclear-fission power plant when AEC is sitting on the facts about a better system...
...committee says, men have accepted the religious interpretation of life and found the way to good through religion. "The Harvard Report," it adds, "does not rule out the validity of these religious ideals; it only opposes inculcating a certain religious morality or making a religious ideal the unifying element in liberal education...