Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newsprint is the feminine element in the pressroom. It is never alike twice. . . . There must be a kindly discipline exerted over it. ... When a sheet of newsprint breaks in the press it raises hell, just like a woman getting hysterical...
...this course can be very fascinating since it will introduce him to that portion of our language which, though it represents surprisingly little of our contemporary vocabulary, is still its course and center. Little do we realize that in our conversation we are constantly using and repeating this Teutonic element of our speech in our commonest and homeliest words and phrases...
...Government is fully prepared to meet eventualities," said he. "These were not food riots but the work of a criminal element. Not a single grocery store or food shop has been looted...
...Illinois Republican primaries (see n. 19). Joseph Clark Baldwin III. 35, Harvard 1920, New York Alderman from the 15th ("Silk Stocking") District, constitutes a unique minority on the Tammany Board. With Lawyer Coudert (see above) and Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, 31, Harvard 1923, he leads the younger element in the State Republican Party. A new, popular member of the U. S. House of Representatives is Howard Malcolm ("Mac") Baldrige, 38, of Nebraska. Yale...
...element weather during the past week the Freshman heavyweight and 150-pound crews have been going through stiff daily practices on the Charles under the direction of Coach Haines...