Word: elements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...element of hypocrisy in Japanese compliance with American demands is, I believe, very low. Some big businessmen pay only lip service to the dissolution of the Zaibatsu, peasants disapprove of free discussion of the imperial institution, etc. But the great majority hope that compliance with American demands will improve their lot. Certainly the Japs have to be watched-mainly because they are medievals whose westernization is only skin deep. Relatively. their purposes and motives are more trustworthy than their mental habits...
...said that the Council would also choose seven more to direct the social affairs of the "forty-niners." These appointees, he stated, would be temporarily installed until an election could be held some time in December so as "to inject the democratic element." The publication officials, however, "due to the specialized nature of their work," would be decided upon by the Council in consultation with Dean Leighton and Freshman proctors...
...wages an average 10%-20% (the cost of living rose more), rolled back rents and clothing costs 10%. Few of Buenos Aires' old-line, socialist-controlled workers went into the Perón camp. But on the poorest fringe, Perón found a following. It was this element that Perón's Labor Secretariat last week turned loose on Buenos Aires. Compared to the 500,000 democratic Argentines who had last month swelled the gigantic "March for Liberty," the Perónistas were small in numbers. But, aided by the police, they fought a pitched battle...
...Niels Bohr, famed Danish scientist who helped develop the bomb, gave ample proof that "the secret" was a fleeting asset. He told the world that current U.S. production of the essential element was 6.6 pounds of uranium...
...showed both the prime virtues and the great defects of the performances at Symphony Hall. Aside from the magnificent discipline and precision of the entire group, especially the strings, Koussevitzky's faithful adherence to the production of new music is the outstanding advantage of Boston. But there is an element of fatigue in Dr. Koussevitzky's approach to the great traditional works of the symphonic repertoire; he has done them a number of times...