Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immortal," Miss Brittain said that the longer war was delayed, the smaller would be the chance of its coming at all. The success of European statesmen in preventing crises more serious than any that led to the World War from leading to another is the most hopeful element in the present situation...
This week, however, as the squad withdraws behind closed panels for the final big push, there is a definite feeling around Cambridge that the palm of victory will have a Crimson hue Saturday evening. There is, of course, a large element who predict that Harvard will get three times as many first downs, outrush by twice as much yardage, complete many more passes, and lose by one point in the last minute of play. And they have facts on which to base their case. But those who have watched the squad in its practices this fall and have seen...
...Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. The best element of business has long decided that honesty should govern competitive enterprises and the rule of caveat emptor should not be relied upon to reward fraud and deception...
Moving from fullbacks to halfbacks, the element of uncertainty comes in with the question whether anybody is going to improve sufficiently to take the place of Carr's regular starting trio, which is good but never all-American. In the forward line, there is still a search for the winning combination. Latest reports seemed to be that Carr had it in the Dartmouth and Tufts games, but Princeton may mean another story...
...excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many critics more successful in the first part of the artist's purpose: "To subdue every element-drawing, form and substance-" than in the second: "To achieve a reality from within rather than from without...