Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week with the fact that its entire post-War structure of pacts and apparatus to keep Peace has now virtually collapsed. Spunky little Belgium thinks that her only chance is to stand fearlessly neutral, as she did in 1914, but this time better prepared to fight. The Flemish element among King Leopold's subjects have always considered that his father, King Albert, was a fool for not selling to Kaiser Wilhelm II at a stiff price the right to let German troops peaceably cross Belgium to attack France. Whether His Majesty in any way now shares this view...
...speech. Jim was a wiry, passionate young mill-hand who had defended Andrew all his life. When innocent, Georgia-born Myrtle Bickerstaff came to town and was paired with Andrew at a church social, won his pathetic devotion and fell in love with his brother, she provided the one element needed to complete the Tallons' tragedy...
William J. Hammond '37, president of the Landon-Knox clubs, said "Results of the CRIMSON poll . . . clearly indicate that socialistic element have switched from Norman Thomas to Mr. Roosevelt, while those believing in maintaining the standard of American democracy have marked for approval the candidacy of Alfred M. Landon...
...alignement des monnaies." That is to say, the French Cabinet claims that what is being done is to adjust the franc by reducing its value and aligning it firmly with the dollar and the pound. As in all good fairy tales there is in this a large element of perfectly sound and factual truth. Any more cynical view results simply from the point of view itself...
...team that wins a league pennant is capable of beating any other team. In a four-game series the element of luck often is the determining factor. Witness the example of Fitzimmons' pitching in the third game or specific instances like Whitehead's grab of De Maggio's line drive in the opener...