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Word: elements (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once again the conservative element in Harvard rose to the surface in an overwhelming majority to vote in the CRIMSON-Herald Tribune poll against the bogey of currency inflation $47-68 with 15 others feeling the issue was too obvious to vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Shows Student Voters Oppose Currency Inflation | 3/20/1936 | See Source »

...poets, those who value poetry for its linguistic or purely technical content, those who find its worth chiefly in its character as a historical document, those who use the manifestation of wisdom as a poetic criterion, and lastly, those who find the philosophy in poetry its most valuable element...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DOES WISDOM SIGNIFY?" IS TITLE OF FROST TALK | 3/18/1936 | See Source »

There is no doubt that quantum mechanics has seized hold of a beautiful element of truth, and that it will be a test stone for any future theoretical basis. . . . However, I do not believe that quantum mechanics will be the starting point in the search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eienstein's Reality | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...dignified but impassioned address Bishop Lawrence spoke of the Oath Bill as a breeder of distrust in a society where today the element of mutual confidence is most needed

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legislators Fail to Query Kelly as Undergraduates Protest Oath | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

...attended French schools, my friends were French, I have held official positions. ... I speak French perfectly and without a trace of foreign accent; even my facial features are free of particularly conspicuous racial traits. I am entitled to consider myself assimilated, and I feel sure that there is no element, however subtle, of the French spirit, French honor or French culture which is alien to me. Yet, though I feel myself to be genuinely French, I do, at the same time, feel that I am a Jew. ... I have always known that a Jew can be nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Abominable Triumph | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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