Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Committee's report is entirely unbiased, particularly in its finding that the President's rejection of the recommendation was not due to any prejudice against the social and economics views of Drs. Walsh and Sweezy, and on the whole through. Nonetheless, in its disregard of the financial element involved--which seems to be the touchstone of the affair--and in its careless statement that the President's ruling concerning the promotion of instructors in Economics "subordinated educational values to financial exigencies," the Committee destroyed its own case. There is little doubt that Mr. Conant's fears...
...hall the Harvard sweepers as sprint champions of the East is the significance of their consistently slow stroke over the short distances. Although the Elis flashed by Cornell to cast grave doubts on the Bollesmen's mythical title, sportsmen are picking the Chace-paced eight to come into its element in the long distance stretch at New London...
...limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker first whack at the job, 603 votes to 201. Chirped she: "We'll make this the best town by a damsite." Before the 30-day Baker whoopee regime got seriously under way, however, the conservative element in Disney, composed of Grocer Silar's best customers, resorted to an already constituted authority to gain what it had lost in the field. Chief of Police Hale Dunn marched out to a tree, tacked up a warning sign: I AM THE LAW IN DISNEY. NO WOMAN CAN RUN THIS...
...educational hullabaloo about intellectual and social guidance is meaningless to the average Freshman. And unless reformers look at every dimension of the real figure, their efforts are mere words. In trying to uplift the personal element in education to its rightful place beside the academic, they have tended to forget the major point that ultimately the result of college training depends upon the undergraduate. It is he who must make himself well-balanced, he who must determine his set of values, he who must become interested in studying, making friends, and joining activities. The idea of maladjustment can easily...
...would have been right in my element," said the African gorilla, regretting that he had been unable to get to the Lampoon's party. "Unfortunately I have never learned to swim," he lamcuted, "but a lot of my relatives were there...