Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a 15-month buildup, with an exciting interlude last winter while a new hero was substituted, the biggest news story of 1937 (so far) last week finally reached its climax on Coronation Day in Westminster Abbey. The element of conflict, without which no news story is great, lay between the reverent, laborious effort of the British people to stage a tremendous spectacle and perform a solemn ritual without any hitch, harm or boggle, and the implacable forces of Chance, innocent or vicious, which might suddenly transform their great drama into farce or tragedy, as a little spark did last...
...number of years physicists and engineers have been working on the problem of providing a source of very high voltage X-Rays which would approximate in wave length the gamma rays of radium, and which could be produced in intensities equaling the output of several hundred grams of this element...
...Radium would offer an ideal source for the external application of short, penetrating rays, but even when several grams of the element are available, the intensity of radiation is so small that the distance between the patient and the applicator can not, with economy, be made sufficiently great to deliver an adequate does to a deep-seated tumor...
...candid cameras kept publicity hounds on their toes most of the evening in an effort to waste no longer their fragrance on the desert air. Although for this type of person the photographic mania may present no menace, to the modest, shrinking violet type it is definitely a disturbing element. Life may have been an invited guest to Leverett's party Thursday night, but to most of the other guests it was certainly unexpected. It is the forlorn hope of many, however, that when the preferred list is again made out, a reservation such as that maintained...
...does not seem to have come across the classical reference charging Homer with having stolen the substance of the Odyssey from a woman writer called Phantasia. Butler also wrote an extremely interesting book on Shakespeare's Sonnets; it was Butler who started the close scrutiny of the homosexual element in them...