Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admission to only Yale graduates and undergraduates reflects a difficulty, that is equally pertinent at Harvard. Admittedly football especially and other sports in a minor way have become too much a question of finances. The spectacular show that a major athletic event evokes has tended to totally obscure the element of sportsmanship. At Harvard the question not only involves large gate receipts but also the matter of financing all athletic facilities that are open to members of the University...
Jack Holt is the successful broker-racketeer of the type with whom most theatre-goers are familiar. His wife is the loving type who knows nothing of her husband's affairs with the underworld, while the "Sonny Boy" element is introduced in "Davey Lee" who makes his entree into the domestic scene singing "Rockaby Baby...
Alkali was a boom town, law & order had not yet descended on it. The sheriff was in cahoots with the unruly cowmen, and the decent shopkeeping and professional element of the town looked to the Johnson gang to keep order. Wayt Johnson, head of the clan, had a reputation for action, but he was trying hard to be law-abiding, he wanted to be elected sheriff. With his brothers Luther and Jim, his henchmen Brant White and Deadwood, he overawed many a would-be bad man, kept the peace in spite of tantalizing taunts. Even when they called him "Saint...
...suggestion was made by one of the many who are anxious to see the sage of the age back at his job that Connie. Mack has kidnapped the famous prophet in an attempt to remove the element of chance from the next World Series. It will be remembered by followers of sport that Dr. Huey's reputation did not really become worldwide until the last World Series, when his remarkably accurate predictions finally won over the most stubborn doubters of his prowess. Investigation brought quick death, however, to the kidnapping story...
...aims as teachers, raison d'etre is to remove to some extent the grave misfortune of becoming snared in some course that has no profit, an extremely expensive experience in the four short years of college. Naturally imperfect and with many short comings as a result of the personal element of the opinions, nevertheless it can help to avoid the tragedy of wasted time...