Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until 1220 when Alchemist Albertus Magnus discovered arsenic, mankind knew only ten elements-carbon, sulphur, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, antimony and mercury. In the next 500 years alchemists discovered only bismuth, zinc and phosphorus. Then scientific chemistry began By 1900, before which time perspicacious Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyeff figured that there must be 92 elements on earth, no more, no less, chemists had isolated 83. Last discovery of a tangible element, which could be handled and weighed, occurred in 1926 when Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois found Element No. 61 among some rare earths...
...elements Professor Fermi played with last spring was uranium. Uranium, discovered in 1789, is the mother stuff of radium, and the heaviest element on earth (twice as heavy as tin). Astronomers believe that elements heavier than uranium must exist in the interior of the sun. Geologists admit that perhaps near the core of the earth may be something heavier than uranium. But there certainly has been none anywhere near the earth's surface where man can lay his hands on it-until possibly last week...
...disrupting element is Huldy ferrin, a "hussy" according to Marm Pierce, whom will Ferrin has found on one of his trips to the city. It is to be regretted that Mr. Williams did not lay more emphasis on his delineation of Huldy, for the brief strokes with which he has painted her arouse great interest and are executed with an apparently unconscious brilliancy. The reader gets a brief glance at a woman with sleepy eyes who would "rather be wanted than needed". Who "was vicious, beyond doubt; yet--there were not the marks of vice upon her, but rather...
...modern play. On the whole, "Hostile valley" does not aim at any particular effect. Writing casually, the author creates his atmosphere, sketches in his characters, works them into a simple plot that can include his murder mystery denouncement and thus aims to strike upon at least one element that will held the interest of the average reader...
...present there are three definite factions in the organization and it is expected that each of these groups will nominate a candidate for the office of president. Both the National Student League faction, representing the Radical element, and the conservatives led by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. '36, Chairman of the Political Action Committee will put up their candidates in addition to the probable nomination of candidates from those who fall in neither of these two categories...