Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Putting to good use some of the war-built training camps, the War Department is undertaking to improve American men mentality, morally, and physically. The soldiering element is introduced rather for the benefits of its discipline than to provide substantial military knowledge. The camps are not a step in the direction of the old Continental service period; no promise or suggestion of further military service is made...
Consequently, those grim optimists who look to see war abolished with the appearance of more effective weapons neglect the most important factor--the human element. When humanity has lost a certain fraction, It cries for peace. Before that time, the more threat of untried devices is unlikely to deter any nation which feels the cosmic urge of battle...
...humorous element first appeared on this ballot, when Colorado voted for Douglas Fairbanks. William Jennings Bryan's nomination was a weak attempt that soon died out. When the result of the ballot was read, it was learned that Carter Glass had 710 votes or 3 too few for the nomination. A motion to nominate him by acclamation failed and after a ten minute recess the seventh ballot was taken. Amid Harvard cheers and riotous disorder, a strong crowd came out for Mr. McAdoo, but glass received the nomination by the margin of three votes. Senator Walsh of Montana was given...
...second offense was when Henry and Elizabeth left the Palace to have tea with the Emperor's English tutor, Reginald Fleming. Many foreigners were present and Henry "was in his element," speaking English to them. Elizabeth was accompanied by Miss Isabel Ingram, graduate of Wellesley, her American tutor...
...certain element of curiosity, also, should provide stimulus, if stimulus is necessary. In the old days the graduating class used the funds resulting from Freshman enthusiasm to finance a mad, glad celebration, with no holds barred, in the form of a picnic. No picnic was held last year, however, and what became of the money not used for the very mild entertainment that was staged is a dark secret. Rumor has it that the proceeds were devoted to charity, but then rumor is unreliable...