Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Human Element, Captain Harry George Armstrong, M. D., is in charge of the Army Air Corps' physiological laboratory at Dayton, Ohio. After four years of research on military and commercial pilots, Captain Armstrong reported last week that too much has been expected of the human element in aviation. "A pilot begins his career," he said, "in good physical condition, with an exceptionally stable mental and emotional system. Yet, in one study, 11% of all pilots and 50% of all those who had reached the age of 30 were suffering some form of functional neurosis or nervous breakdown. And physical...
...months ago Chairman William O. Douglas of the Securities & Exchange Commission ticked off the "club" aspects of the New York Stock Exchange, declared that "no element of the Casino" could be allowed to survive, recommended such changes as hiring a paid president (TIME, Dec. 6). President Charles Gay of the exchange hastened to appoint a committee under Chairman Carle Cotter Conway of Continental Can Co. to consider Bill Douglas' suggestions...
Aroused by the growing collegiate element in the stage-door line, the dancers recently formed a "College Date Bureau," and the committee on admissions has issued a personal information blank rivaling an income tax blank in proportions. The five dollars will go to the Stage Relief Fund, it is said...
...last winter-gave Supreme Court Justices who were over 70 the right to retire instead of resigning, with full pay of $20.000 a year guaranteed against any possible reduction by Congress. Justice Willis Van Devanter retired last May. Justice Sutherland's letter consequently reduced the rock-ribbed conservative element on the bench to two (Justices Butler and McReynolds), removed the potential balance of power from the middle-of-the-road conservatives (Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts), gave the liberal wing (Justices Brandeis, Cardozo,-Stone,* Black and, presumably, Justice Sutherland's successor), a majority as effective...
...true, some bothersome discrepancies in the behavior of beta rays (fast electrons) shooting out of radium would be cleared up. Also it would make the concept of the neutrino unnecessary. The neutrino is a hypothetical particle imagined by physicists as a carrier of energy which mysteriously disappears when one element is transmuted into another. If it is assumed that the vanished energy has taken the form of greater mass in the electron, the neutrino, which has never been found in the laboratory, loses its reason for existence...