Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terribly out of my element, terribly at sea. I know what one woman?Mary?can do and I can imagine what 10,000 women can do. "I am married to an organization, you know, Mary Pickford, but when I married I insisted on retaining my maiden name...
...have been greatly troubled (and not only I, but also many of my acquaintances) by a single phrase in this morning's editorial on the new requirements for admission. In commending the proposed plan, the editorial notes that it helps to exclude from college a large unassimilable element, which includes "commuters". Now, thus to separate goats and sheep is most perturbing, especially since this classification is not zoological, but is based on a question of habitat...
...clearly beheld this intervening shadow. It appeared in the wavelength spectra of Nos. 60 and 62 as a line that belonged to neither yet was identical in both. Forthwith, though he had no lump of new metal in his hand, he was able to announce that be had discovered Element No. 61-one of the five unknowns predicted by Science's periodic arrangement of all the 92 elements...
...matter is composed of electric particles. The new element is not a mysterious, incalculable new kind of matter, but an arrangement of protons and electrons different from all other arrangements. Dr. Hopkins gave it no name for the time being, just no name for the time being, just No. 61.† He knew that it was metallic; that its atomic weight would prove to be between 144.3 and 150.4 (the weights of 60 and 62). But he could not demonstrate its properties, uses, value, having only a trace of it in the half-ounce morsel to which he had reduced...
...always do the collegiate hordes succeed so well as did the Blah with its social enterprise. Occasionally the less whimsical element enter into the sport with ill effects. The Brockton Bugle sounds the following ominous notes...