Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reminded readers that the army has a "White Paper" plan for fighting civil wars if & when civil government ceases to govern. "Today," he wrote, "when doctrines subversive to American constitutional government are being preached and civil authority is often openly flouted, the Army . . . stands firm as the one stable element. . . . The Army of the United States, unlike certain other armies, will never march for any leader except one lawfully appointed and acting fully and lawfully in the interest of all citizens and holding high the Stars and Stripes forever...
Doll-like, repulsively big-nosed, black-bearded and bespectacled, Lautrec loved circuses, dance halls, race tracks. Several brothels came to regard him as a kind of mascot. His home and native element was Montmartre. Biographer Mack has tried conscientiously but has failed to reanimate this legendary quarter. He ploughs without inspiration through genealogies of the successive owners of peripheral café-concerts where Lautrec occasionally had a drink. It is interesting to learn that Jane Avril, the delicate dancer of the Moulin Rouge whose skull-like face Lautrec loved to draw, still lives and remembers him. Mr. Mack...
...showed a steady increase in the number of iodine drinkers, said Dr. Moore, not one fatal case of iodine poisoning was observed in Boston and vicinity. Reasons: 1) Iodine cannot be absorbed by the body without chemical change. It combines with fatty acids, proteins, starches, or unites with another element and changes from a powerful, slow-acting cell poison to a less toxic iodide. 2) Iodine produces such intense irritation of the gastrointestinal tract that the stomach rejects even small amounts...
...Ernest Rutherford (later Lord Rutherford), accomplished the first disintegration of an atom's nucleus, the first transmutation of one element into another. Using for bullets the particles which fly naturally out of radium, Rutherford made oxygen out of nitrogen...
...mass of atoms by recording their paths in a magnetic field. The principle is that the degree of curvature of an atom's path under magnetic attraction depends on its mass. This instrument was of enormous value in the study of isotopes, which are atoms of the same element having different weights...