Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have to reckon with in estimating his work. It is significant that his first "collages," paste-jobs of paper and other textures, were not intended as pictures but as models for pictures. Dealers and dilettante admirers insisted that they were wonderful, and Picasso shrugged off the whole matter. The element of nose-thumbing and Dada (organized senselessness) in his later work has probably the same genesis...
...Hahn bombarded his bit of uranium with neutrons in order to obtain ekarhenium, a heavy element similarly created some years ago by Italian Physicist Enrico Fermi. Hahn obtained ekarhenium, all right, and something else he did not expect, which he identified as atoms of barium and krypton. He applied the principles of quantum mechanics (atomic mathematics) to find out how much of a tempest in a test tube occurs when ekarhenium breaks up into barium and krypton. Answer: 200,000,000 volts...
...lightest element in Crime and the Man are the 24 charts which Dr. Hooton himself drew to illustrate his text. An amateur sketcher with a humorous line that many a cartoonist might envy, he calls his illustrations "nasty little human figures" (see opposite page...
This evidence of low prices for farm products points to the most significant element in the commodity-price weakness- the inequilibrium which worries Mr. Roosevelt when he suggests that some prices should fall, others rise. For, whereas prices of farm products and raw materials (output of which cannot be easily controlled) break on slight excuse, prices of manufactured products (output of which is more or less controllable) are firmly established...
...have been living with the Jews in Iraq and other Arabic countries for hundreds of years peacefully and amicably. The element that we are fighting now is not the minorities we have with us but that new foreign element Zionism which has been encroaching into Palestine for the last 15 years...