Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Baskerville was the first American to discover a new element. He established the fact that thorium, hitherto supposed to be an element is really a combination of two substances called by him carolinium after the State of North Carolina and Berzelium after Berzelius a Swedish chemist who discovered thorium nearly a century ago. These new elements were first found by Prof. Baskerville in the monazite sand of North Carolina...
...fiancee and murders the father of a peasant. This lad then learns the art of fighting and, with the aid of a sinister friend of his father's known as "The Shadow Man," wreaks revenge on the noble. This play exhibits the dueling which is a characteristic element of the Ken-Geki. It consists of fearsome attitudes struck with long, glittering blades, followed by angry swipes which usually miss their mark. An Occidental fencer who indulged in such waste motion would be speedily punctured, but these mimic wars, accompanied by grunts and gnashings, are undeniably picturesque. Matsuri (Festival...
...greatest advantage of this rule is that it will enable those men who are admitted to carry on personal research under the direct tutelage of the instructor. With the weeding out of the dilettante element, the faculty will be able to concentrate its efforts and the students will be able to develop their individual inclinations unhampered by the routine that the presence of less able persons necessitates...
Since the great communist scare of 1919. "treat 'em rough" has been the apparent policy of the United States in dealing with the so-called "Red" element of the population. Aside from characteristic protest from such liberal journals as the Nation no one has become very much excited over a situation which places the government in the position of an avowed suppressor of political minorities to whom the constitution guarantees freedom. Anarchist outrages like the Wall Street bombing identified the communist party in the public mind as an outlawed enemy of society to whom no treatment was just save that...
...student concentrating in History, for example, may be examined on History as it applies to Government or Economics. This will introduce an element of mature interpretation of the subject which has not been prevalent before. If this new plan is successful, it is predicted that other subjects may be treated in a similar manner...