Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt or imagination. It was both amusing and amazing to those of us who relied on newspapers for this information. No admirer of blatant Huey, still I feel that perhaps his conduct could be justified on physiological if not ethical reasons. Piggish Kingfish, he probably waded into his native element, the punch (beverage), over his depth with a sad result. . . . HARWOOD ALLEN Cameron, Wis. Sirs: Allow an ardent TIME reader to highly commend the article in the Sept. 11 issue, entitled "In a Washroom." Here's hoping such a publication of facts will help to muzzle forever "a United...
Besides lecturing in History 1, Professor Merriman is Master of Eliot House, which he rules like one of the benevolent feudal barons of whom he lectures as memorably. Never did he seem more in his element than in a recent play of the Eliot House Elizabethan Club, marching through Eliot's enormous dining hall as King Henry...
...then was already famed since the beginning of the Gold Rush as "Sydney Town"-named for the Australian ruffians, escaped convicts and ticket-of-leave men who clustered there around the earliest tent-dwelling Chileno (Spanish-American) harlots. These "Sydney Ducks" made up the city's first criminal element. Their grog-shops, dancehalls and bawdy houses became spawning grounds for swindlers, burglars, thugs, arsonists and murderers of infamous skill and boldness. In a 40,000 population there was an average of two murders a day. The town was nearly wiped out by incendiary fire six times before the Vigilance...
There is the time element, constantly pressing the best-laid plans of presidents and brain trusts. Mr. Roosevelt must score a big success, quick, or his program is likely to fall...
...sacrifice the female element on the alter of higher scholarship would be foolish opposition to an educational method which has met with success in many places. In at least one respect the College in the summer approaches most closely President Lowell's definition of one of those places where you get as much as you put into it, for education is not innoculated but voluntary. Fortunately the administration here has not sponsored many social activities, trusting rather the persistent ingenuity of hunters and huntresses, and thereby has avoided diverting those who really come to pursue learning. There are too many...