Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squabble with Japan, Russia is almost sure to be included. China, on the other hand, is too small a factor to count. Russia's latest second five year plan will be a large element in this controversy; when it is completed, it will mean that Russia will be a nation capable of carrying on war on a large scale, for self-sufficiency in industrial output is a necessity for any country fighting an extensive campaign...
...married Cissie Vaughan, an Irishwoman, who sings the parts of Josephine Baker and Don Juan's peasant girl. Says her husband: "As an Irishwoman she is the most Italian of the English-speaking peoples. As an Italian, I am the most Irish of the Latins. . . . The one element in the theatre which serves to kill illusion is the presence of human beings." Come of Age (by Clemence Dane; music by Richard Addinsell; Delos Chappell, producer). Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was the most remarkable child prodigy in the history of literature. Hungry and humiliated, he took arsenic in his bleak...
...That was the sum and substance of what happened. There was no defiance of the Government whatsoever, and my clients and the writer are in entire sympathy with the NRA and the President's Recovery Program, though we are against price-fixing alone as a mere element in that program...
...understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself with engineering the situation that brings everything off. He is a clumsy device on the stage; he is clumsier, because more explicit, in the written homily...
...President were to unbosom himself to the American people--and he has studiously refrained from public or private prophesy--he would be compelled to concede that there are so many elements over which the government has control and so many over which it has no control that any attempt to forecast the future is necessarily a matter of guessing what each element will do in a given set of circumstances...