Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different academic and social environment, Gunter has enjoyed Harvard immensely. The faculty lives up to its international prestige, and although the students are somewhat reserved, he finds them interesting company. Radcliffe girls, Gunter notes, equal the Berlin female students in both charm and prodigious note-taking. There is one element, however, of his Berlin life which Gunter misses with an indefineable longing--the student-frequented bars and coffee houses. "I would have to be a poet to describe this difference," he states. "There is no comparison between a German tavern and Cronin...
...state political power are divisions of national significance. On one side is George Craig, who is aligned with the new, progressive force of Dwight Eisenhower's brand of Republicanism. On the other side is U.S. Senator William Ezra Jenner, who stands in the core of the G.O.P. element that opposed Eisenhower before the Republican Convention in 1952, and still opposes him much of the time. Somewhere in between is U.S. Senator Homer Capehart, who has been on the Jenner team but appears to be edging toward the middle...
...sacrament of unity . . ." According to the Episcopal Church, a sacrament is "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." Grace, in a sense, is that which conforms us to God-the Creator. What grace can there be in an act from which every creative element is deliberately removed...
...about a few years ago. Slapdash buildings were going up everywhere; Minatitlán's newest hotel opened for business before it was even finished, a second bank went up, honky-tonk bars and gambling joints were busy 24 hours a day. Cause of it all: sulphur, an element far more valuable to industry than gold. Last week, after years of exploration, three newly formed U.S. companies started to work huge deposits hidden under the isthmus jungles, shipped off their first 30 tons to world markets...
...were not only an outgrowth of the wartime U.S.-Soviet alliance. Indeed, from the very first days of this country's recognition of the Soviet government in 1933, the military leaders, realizing Russia's comparative weakness and its need for aid against possible aggressors, were the most pro-American element of the Kremlin hierarchy. More interested in logistics than Leninism, the professional soldiers provided few of the doctrinaire revolutionaries who had nothing but scorn for the West...