Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...S.R.O., and the box-office receipts showed over 900 paid admissions. The play was performed exactly as produced in New York except for damns instead of goddamns. This is ironical inasmuch as anyone who is familiar with the play knows well that the profanity is the least objectionable element from the censors' point of view...
...wholeheartedly to their own ends, seldom ask or accept advice. They like chess and inventors. They chafe at regimentation, avoid picnics and excursions but go to dances and formal parties, can have fun doing and seeing things alone. "[The divorced woman's] personality," the investigators conclude, "lacks the element of sweet femininity but commands respect for its rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance...
...York Times: ". . . Color will become an integral motion picture element in the next few years." After a day's thought the Times editorialized thus: ". . . The ordinary black-&-white pictures are likely to seem to us hereafter anemic, old-fashioned and unreal...
About one-third of Robert's 54 faculty members are U. S. citizens. Officially they lead a drab, secluded life. Penalty for drinking is instant dismissal. Though Robert is non-sectarian and officially nonproselytizing, the ruling element in the faculty is composed of oldsters rooted in the missionary tradition. But younger facultymen, adventurous college graduates, mostly from the West and Midwest, go out on three-year contracts to see Life. Istanbul has a gay foreign colony and night life...
...symbol d, common in calculus, operates to make the left side of the equation a quantity containing the element of change. The suffixes (1) and (2), explains Dr. Richardson, identify the symbols which they follow as the opposing nations or groups of nations; x denotes preparedness for war, a variable; t is the length of time during which the nations have been coming together as enemies; k is a "defense-coefficient"; √ is a "fatigue and expense" coefficient; Δ "represents those dissatisfactions-with-treaties, which tend to provoke a breach of the peace...