Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boxing is liable to be too much tainted by professionalism," said Major Moore. "As soon as it is made an intercollegiate sport prominent boxers get mixed up with professional fighters in Boston and the real sport element is lost...
...group of radicals are dictating the tax measures of the country, and the Mellon Bill has seemingly been sidetracked. Senators and Congressmen are vastly interested in "putting themselves on record" and in putting their opponents in a hole. After Easter, Presidential politics will probably inject an even greater element of uncertainty into the business situation...
...thoroughly familiar with the lime starvation theory and treatment. It has been weighed in the balance of therapeutic and clinical tests and found wanting . . . Mr. McCann has done what other sensational writers have done before. In an attempt to make a sensation he has gone out of his element. McCann is wild enough when he confines himself to a discussion of food problems. When he goes into therapeutics he is hopeless...
...deal directly with American exporters, and obtain credit directly from New York banks. In cotton this new arrangement makes another saving possible; cotton bought abroad is to some extent heavier and more costly since it absorbs moisture in the ocean shipment. By purchasing in New York, this element of hidden expense can be eliminated. Payments for U. S. goods will be made with the chernovetz, which has replaced the rouble as Russia's basic currency...
...industries are as unstable as that which is concerned with the production, refining and distribution of petroleum. It is always either a feast or famine. Until only a few weeks ago, the famine element seemed uppermost; overproduction had created a great surplus of crude oil for the oil companies to carry, prices were declining precipitously, and disaster was frankly anticipated by the trade. But meanwhile the consumption of crude oil and its byproducts, continued to increase. The huge production of automobiles demanded greater amounts of gasoline than ever. Large office buildings and hotels have adopted oil heating systems. Some railroads...