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Word: elementalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that the Reverend Father either become a politician and discard the collar, where I think he will be in his element, or return to the fold and follow the Great Man of Galilee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1936 | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Affecting the science of Traffic Control is one uncontrollable element-aroused public opinion. At present, after a notable din of propaganda started by J. C. Furnas' And Sudden Death (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935), public opinion gives evidence of being permanently aroused. Largely because of this permanent safety drive, automobile fatalities for the first five months of 1936 are 3-5% less than last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Four Frictions | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...retail credit being a wide field unto itself. NACM facilitates the pooling of credit information. Every bank, every company that extends credit is constantly prying into the private affairs of its customers. They study balance sheets, earnings statements, profit & loss accounts, weigh character, reputation, personal habits. But the final element in credit is "ledger experience," the record of how bills were paid in the past. Local credit associations collect ledger experience from their members, pass it on to a national clearing house in the National Association. Between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 credit records are always on file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Credit Men | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...made by the students of the School of Regional Planning last night in an open letter to the University at large. The letter stressed the incongruity of continuing to attempt to build up a course in Public Service Training under the Littauer endowment after taking away an essential element in such a course by discontinuing physical planning training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CITY PLANNERS AGAIN PROTEST ELIMINATION | 6/18/1936 | See Source »

They compose a unit. City planning is the best word that we now have for this unit. These elements can be shown on a map because they are land qualities. That sort of planning that cannot be shown on a map is not city planning,--at least from my point of view. The fact that a highway can be made by a municipality or a state or a nation does not alter the fact that it is an element in city planning. No institution in this country has stuck so closely, to this vital subject as the Harvard School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 6/10/1936 | See Source »

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