Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debate followed in which Dickens' immortal characters were discussed with the mud slinging of a political campaign. One would have thought that Steerforth was even then continuing his evil ways and that Barkis still pursued his trade of carrier. It is a tribute to the influence of the better element of the town that Mr. Salmon was at last convinced of Barkis rectitude and sobriety...
...spite of our particular care to avoid misunderstanding, we have received occasional communications protesting against our desire to "abolish chapel", or accusing us of being destructive critics without a constructive element. Of course it is compulsion and not chapel that we, and now virtually all of Yale College and the Freshman Year, are attacking, and the very attack is a constructive one. It is our belief, stated infinite numbers of times, that what runs our religious services is the element of compulsion. Unless you call an operation for appendicitis a destructive operation you cannot call this newly expressed and long...
...pardon record of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, and in connection with such discussion I referred to Jim Ferguson in the following language: "All Texans are sorry for the woman that must bear his practice of using her as a rubber stamp that he may be rehabilitated through the criminal element of the state. Jim Ferguson knows that he can never be elected to office again and that two years will close the political career of Mrs. Ferguson, and he is doubtless 'making hay while the sun shines.' Is Jim Ferguson the unseen agent that acts before the pardon...
...fell on the Rev. Dr. Ernest Wilmore Stires, who lately resigned as Rector of St. Thomas Church, Manhattan, and is now Bishop Coadjutor-elect of the Diocese of Long Island. The defeated candidate was Dr. George Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill., supported by much of the conservative, high church element yet who polled only 142 of the 532 votes...
...called New Plan was inaugurated some time ago in order to make it possible for meg not especially drilled for the College Board Examinations to take four comprehensive tests in requisite fields. Another purpose, announced by the Office, was to introduce a more personal element in admissions, in requiring that the application's past history and ability of leadership be considered...