Word: elements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transmitter consists of a parabolic reflector, at whose butt end is an enormous vacuum tube. The tube sets like the heating element of the common portable electric heaters. The heater's reflector is basin-like. Dr. Kolster's radio reflector is so vast (20 feet across the rim) that it resembles a funnel...
...their political concepts and in the objects of their foreign policy; but surely they ought to unite in more and more projects of commercial benefit, such as this railway. "I hail these strong bands of steel," cried André Tardieu in emotional peroration, "as a new and active element in the organization of peace...
Maurice murders Lambertier; Valerie admits the adultery which she has lied about before and committed for reasons which are the weakest element in the play. Maurice then gives himself up to the police to save an innocent man from execution. Valerie, by explaining the true circumstances, will save her husband...
...Twoscore Harvard professors, including Charles Townsend Copeland, Felix Frankfurter, Frank William Taussig, Kuno Franke, Bliss Perry, Ralph Barton Perry, Francis Bowes Sayre. Reasons: ". . . Neither the continued association of the Republican candidate with the reactionary element of the party nor his public utterances during the campaign give us any reason to believe that he has broken with that group. The best hope for a return to the liberalism of Roosevelt and Wilson lies in the election of Governor Smith...
...Sexes starring Dorothy Gish, now refilmed with modern casts and setting and the original story of a businessman harassed by a professional sweetheart and a tearful wife. Bedroom antics by Don Alvarado and the squirmings on a cushioned floor of Miss Phyllis Haver's stomach supplied an element which kept fingers busy in the box-offices of theatres which showed this picture last week...