Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month, the Court should sustain certain vital sections of the NRA now under examination, Mr. Roosevelt probably will be able to force the Senate to comply with his wishes. In passing, one cannot help suggesting that now when time is such a precious element in the fate of the Blue Eagle, the President may not look on Professor Frankfurter with too fond feelings. It was the latter's advice that major court tests of the NRA be delayed. But that was when the Eagle soared merrily...
...present, anthropologists simply judge as closely as possible the color of the hair and eyes. These relatively crude judgements must serve to classify all features that cannot be measured by calipers and tape. Due to the personal element involved, very few observers are willing to agree on all points of judgement. Constant efforts are being made to develop new methods of measurement, to eliminate the "personal equation...
...highly speculative asset against some of its liabilities. Only sensible explanation of the Treasury's continuing to increase that huge speculation is that it is looking forward to making the dollar a gold & silver combination. That would be symmetallism, first cousin to bimetallism and would take the speculative element out of the U. S. silver hoard. But no word did the Treasury breathe last week of symmetallism or bimetallism. Talk of monetary changes has brought too many dead cats flying towards the Treasury. Now the Treasury no longer talks...
...press received GE's metal tube cordially, spoke of the first "radical change" since Lee de Forest bobbed up with the three-element audion tube in 1907. Far from cordial was Philco Radio & Television Corp., which has small esteem for metal tubes and no stomach whatever for a possible public swing in that direction. Philco bought a full page in the New York Times ($4,500) to launch a counterblast. Recalling an ill-starred experiment with metal tubes in Britain, Philco warned that a "pell mell rush" into metal might also have disastrous consequences here. Points...
This is certainly true in the outside world; but here in college, arrangements with friends are followed up by activities with them, and thus the personal element is not lost...