Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge Police are on the job. They are stoutly determined that the evil element, so densely concentrated in Harvard, will not be allowed to enfold within its lecherous toils the virtuous maidens of Cambridge. Harvard men are not to be trusted one inch and the slightest suspicion is to be acted upon with vigour. Recently they showed not only the ability, but the inclination to practice their prerogatives in curbing the vice that is flourishing...
...main fleet the capital ship is the essential element upon which the whole structure of our naval strategy depends. The age of our battleships renders it necessary to commence their replacement at an early date, but the extent of new construction would be subject to any agreement reached at the forthcoming naval conference...
...weather, the terrain, the supply of game put an element of luck into bird-dog trials that even the long three-hour runs in the National cannot wholly counterbalance. When Henry M. Curry's Homewood Flirtatious, paired with Doctor Blue Willing, found eight coveys and two singles on the first day of the trials, the judges might have suspected her of being merely fortunate until they saw her in the brief 30-minute runoff. Then paired with Andrew G. C. Sage's Sulu. Homewood Flirtatious found her first covey 50 seconds after she was put down. Two minutes...
...crew of bunco-steerers, con men and cappers he started a saloon in Skagway, set out to captivate that leaderless town. He did it, but it was hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order element grew restive. Finally, when a green prospector was robbed in Soapy's own saloon, the storm gathered. A meeting of sober citizens was called. When Soapy, singlehanded, went down to remonstrate with them, his speech was cut short by a bullet...
Aside from the element of the maximum price which the student could pay for his accommodations, the Central Committee in apportioning the applicants among the Houses gave chief consideration to placing the men in Houses where they could be assigned to tutors. Through the cooperation of the Masters and of Head Tutors in each field of concentration, the Committee had been provided with the number of new students who could be given tutors in each House...