Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radical element urged the adoption of a resolution asking Congress to authorize the Government to purchase wheat at $1.50 a bushel to keep the price from falling below that price. The Conference defeated the resolution, however, and declared for cooperative marketing. A National Council was provided for, to act as a permanent body for studying the farmers' problems...
...Joint Amnesty Committee, the more radical element of those trying to secure the release of the men imprisoned in this country for breaking wartime laws, is going to try a new method of securing its ends. The petition to President Harding of 52 notables (TiME, June 11) brought no results. Now the Amnesty Committee is preparing more vigorous protest...
...York. Because of its open-air character, this " Curb Market," as it came to be called, utterly lacked the severe disciplinary regulation for which the Stock Exchange was noted, and while economically an essential part of financial machinery, its ethical tone was distinctly low. In 1921, however, the better element of Curb traders and brokers erected a building for themselves and moved indoors, much as the Stock Exchange had done over a century before. This indoor meeting place enabled the New York Curb Association for the first time in its history to punish its members for unethical practices by expelling...
...with him into the office the sympathy and friendly understanding which have made him the best of guides; he established for the University, and as an example for all American colleges the ideal that a dean is not a mere disciplinary officer but a counsellor and friend. The personal element which he introduced has been continued by those who have succeeded him as Dean of Harvard College, and the creation of assistant deans for each class extended it even farther...
...Institute of International Education in arranging these tours is entirely non-commercial according to Dr. Hamilton Holt, a member of the Institute's Board of 'Advisors. "The students' tours have been organized", he declared, "to meet a double need: the need for travel as a broadening and vitalizing element in the education of our young men and women, and the need for travel as a means of establishing a closer intellectual relationship between the youth of America and of other countries...