Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a mixed feeling of revenge and morbid curiosity that we put sociological tactics to use in determining how the Harvard element would react if suddenly placed in our shoes (green suede). Donning our best overalls we approached ten or eleven of the more proper looking specimens up for the football game and rendered an oral examination consisting of one question: "Are you from Harvard...
...matter of foreign policy was "decided." This involves a misconception. The responsibility for deciding whether or how to go ahead rests with the President. No good comes from attempts to invade [his] authority and responsibility. This occurs under weak Presidents. The President [is] the pivotal point, the critical element in reaching decisions on foreign policy. Now the capacity to decide is not a common attribute of mankind. It becomes increasingly rare as the difficulty of the problems increases. The choice becomes one between courses all of which are hard and dangerous. The "right" one, if there is a right...
NATURE designed man's body for a groundling's life, never more than treetop height above the earth's surface. In the upper reaches of the atmosphere or in the airless space beyond, man is as much out of his element as a mackerel marching across the Sahara. But unlike the mackerel, man is determined to transcend his environment. He reaches for the stars. A short half-century after the Wright brothers skittered over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk aircraft now on the designers' boards will fly at heights...
...time he announced the opening of the campaign drive last fall, Jordan had stated, "Only one element is lacking to give the Radcliffe graduate school the full stature of greatness. It requires a physical center: there is no focus which is so necessary for the growth of cultivated human beings...
...Cosmologists consider the earth a non-typical speck of heavy-element impurities...