Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt was made by the radicals, assisted by the Ku Klux Klan element, to deprive President Lewis of his power to appoint union organizers, with the purpose of having the offices made elective. They argued that this patronage power made Lewis an autocrat. A standing vote was taken and Lewis lost, but a roll call was forced, which took the greater part of a day and Lewis' appointive power was sustained by a majority of 157 votes...
...atmosphere of an American college is healthy, social, even cultural, but it is a life apart a blissful four years to spend and look back on, not to use. It lacks that element which in England makes the university merely the first stage in a public career. On the other hand, there is little interest among the young men themselves. The common procedure is for the budding youth to dabble in studies and extra curriculum activities at college, pausing on occasion at the beck of a compelling headline to reflect on "those politicians". Sometimes he will brace himself to hurl...
Hydrogen The Basic Element...
Graduates Out of Element...
...must be admitted that most of the graduate contributions lead one to believe that the quondam editors are no longer in their element. This is only to be expected. Years of change both in the manner of inducing the smile, and in the graduates themselves are bound to make a difference. But there was one guest at the dinner, who pictures himself flying to Boston to Russian leaps, completely at one with the work he had to do. Of course Mr. James Montgomery Flagg is old in the ways of his craft. But he needed all his cunning to strike...