Word: elements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kiphuth's lads were the dominant element of a two-day water fest, proving hardly a gracious host to the many visiting aggregations. In the Friday night finals they took first and second in the 50-yard freestyle and the 150-yard back-stroke, and the first four notches in the 220-yard freestyle...
...Haven's reaction-like that of most of the 53 cities in which Pastor Niemböller has spoken during the past 3½ months-was mixed. Most of the younger element left the meeting early enough to find out how the "Hillhouse" (New Haven High) basketball team came out in the state title game two blocks away...
Realizing, perhaps, that his theme wasn't quite capable of sustaining "Heartsong" through an entire evening, Mr. Laurents was wise enough to write in a part for Shirley Booth, a competent comedienne from Hartford. When she was permitted to stick to her element, Miss Booth, who can make almost any line seem funny, managed to carry the play. But when she was obliged to join in with the rest of the cast in thrashing out the problems of marriage, Miss Booth sank to the same level of purpose-lessness that here colleagues and the author had established...
...import than the fate of this year's book is the long run repercussions any additional defection will have on selling space in future Red Books. Patently some supervisory body other than the Council is indicated to unify successive Freshman efforts. The most logical source of such a directive element would be the trained staff from the previous year. Unfortunately, most ex-Red Book editors generally require the College years of post-officialdom to recover from neurosis. But if the outgoing men could elect one of their number as Red Book overseer for the following year, some practical instructions from...
...inasmuch as only one president has been successful in gaining more than two terms of office. But regarded from both the theoretical and the practical angle, the dangers, inherent in the passage of this measure take sudden and disturbing shape. Many students of government and political theory question the element of democracy involved in telling the people. "You can't elect this man of your highest office, even though most of you want him there, because he has served long enough now." This restriction placed on the electorate in periods of crisis, when certain experienced leadership is required, should make...