Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business may well keep its fingers crossed about the real economic profits which a war boom, might offer, but the soundest element of last week's incipient boom was that it had already stimulated employment, thereby increasing purchasing power to support a continuation of bigger production. By reemployment such a boom, even if false, might inaugurate the opposite of the vicious circle of depression: the beginning of a delicious circle of recovery...
...against Great Britain in the Boer War, guessed that his people would not want to fight for Britain in this one. For the Union is made up of four polyglot provinces, two Crown colonies and controls by League mandate a former colony of Germany's, and the outstanding element in its history has been the internal clash of nationalities-natives, Dutchmen, Britons, Germans-not its interest in Europe's troubles...
Thirty-six gases were used in World War I-every one of which was a known chemical compound or element and many (like chlorine and phosgene) were useful in peace before the War. Their use in battle was not a scientific but a manufacturing problem. With their powerfully developed chemical industry, the Germans had a considerable edge on the Allies, and Allied gas warfare was largely a series of belated retaliations...
...military metallurgy, beryllium is rated a new wonder metal. The element beryllium was discovered by a Frenchman in 1797, but during World War I and for years afterward there was no known use for it; in 1923 its price was $5,000 per pound. But beryllium ores are scattered widely over the world and last week the price of the metal was down to about $11. Not quite twice as heavy as water, beryllium is one of the lightest of all metals. It is a third lighter than aluminum. Chemically wedded to copper or nickel, it makes an extremely hard...
...high holiday humor, this bright, fast, pert reporting rollicks along almost as if there were no war in China. Messrs. Auden & Isherwood are right in their element describing such Alice in Wonderland scenes from topsy-turvy Chinese life as two old men gravely trying to put a rat in a bottle, a woman tirelessly pouring water through a sieve. More startling than anything they report about the East is what they report, often unconsciously, about themselves. Their own honest verdict on Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu: ". . . though we wear out our shoes walking the slums, though we take notes...