Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banks," wrote FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover in a recent warning sent to bankers, "are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money." Hoover urged that, to resist, banks install armed guards, electronic alarms, tear gas and other protective devices. All these cost money, which banks are reluctant to spend, a fact that makes them even more irresistible...
Like the other Masters, Perkins emphasized the element of freedom of choice, which the IBM machine would eliminate. "I deprecate this thing of taking question out of the human free will, and putting them into something you operate by punching buttons," he added...
...they are not. Earle Fdgriton's Morell loses every element of the minister's character which should make him attractive. Shaw's version is genuinely hearty and morally scrubbed, perhaps more a man of instinct than thought, but his are good, deep instincts. Instead, Fdgerton is posing and sniveling. In a role which demands naturalness above all, he is always artificial, or worse, sanctimonious and prim...
...justification for the aims of i.e. must be sought. It is by analyzing a substantial group that we may determine whether Mr. Raditsa has done more than put together a miscellaneous assortment of writings, whether he has in fact created an organ which will express a distinct and significant element of thought at the University. Two issues do not provide sufficient material to form any judgment. Nevertheless even in the current issue the articles forcibly direct our attention to the problem of "the discovery of the self," be it by means of Gnosis, its historical emergence-according to Jacob Taubes...
...outbreak, must be a case of seasonal aggressions in the Hutch. The proposed tower, resting upon a feeble arch, would be as shaky as are these fabricated claims. Winthrop's Gore Hall will remain impervious even if the Leveretts, having tried in vain to beg or steal, return to element and burrow...