Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machinery at Princeton and Yale, but employed only perfunctorily at Harvard. For many the advisibility of the "capacity test" will, however, have to be proven. At present it may be pointed out that, although its advantages are evident, time alone will prove its efficiacy in weeding out the undesired element...
...Republican faction that is fighting to oust the incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith faction is vile, vicious, responsible for Chicago's maladies. But, curiously enough, the maligned fellows have a habit of winning elections. It does not matter that, in 1924, Mr. Crowe called his present ally, Mayor...
...Better Element." Rich people made such remarks as "No one one knows has been shot...
...loud was the clamor. Ill-concealed was the suspicion of many a Wall Streeter that the suppression of the Clearing House statements was prompted by a desire to conceal the banks' lack of sufficient reserves and hence to give a false sense of security to the speculative element of the financial community. Indeed a deficit in reserves had been shown in all but two of the first ten weeks of 1928, an altogether unprecedented situation...
...always given us the impression of a lionized lecturer to ladies clubs, rather than of "a first-class fighting man", his latest opus. THE POOR GENTLEMAN (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1928, $2.50) is a pleasantly written adventure and mystery story. Mr. Hay tries to weave an element of political philosophy into the tale and manages to combine his propaganda with flection very agreeably. It is a story of love, bolsheviks, kidnappers, and whatnot, all culminating in a happy ending...