Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vowed never to forget them. For four years of World War I, they got 100 m.p.h. out of tin-Lizzie aircraft that bucked like hiccuping buzzards, flying by the seat of their pants, tossing bombs like baseball pitches, extending the realm of human conflict to the third and last element...
...lines of endeavor, but equally ... to oppose and resist trends, political or educational, in favor of more traditional values which he believes to be more fundamental than the policies of the numerical or political majority . . . The function of [the independent school] is to keep alive and flourishing this element of critical independence in our national school system...
...answer to such a suggestion," said the court, "is that the right to refuse to answer a question which is not pertinent is not a personal privilege, such as the right to refrain from self-crimination, which is waived if not seasonably asserted; but that pertinency is an element of the criminal offense which must be shown by the prosecution...
...missing element in making Europe defensible at this time," said Dulles, "is the lack of any German forces." Those who oppose the European Army, with its twelve German divisions, have proposed no alternatives, said Dulles. "The theoretical alternative is that Germany might be made a member of NATO and re-create its own national forces, but, of course, the French have a veto, and I am told that they would be even more opposed to that than ... to the European Army." The U.S. could not keep large forces in an indefensible Europe. "I do not believe that the Americans...
...Winthrop (sie) House Musical (sie) Society. I do not find their colorful posters nor their fine choice of Iolanthe in poor taste; however, their use of sound track to balre their wares is most annoying and objectionable. The discontinuance of the sound track would help restore a greater element of peace and quiet to the Harvard community and would stop the dangerous precedent set in last term's blood drive, with its sound truck solicitations. Must Winthrop House continue to exploit its unfortunate captive audience, unobtrusively studying in their rooms? What shall it profit Winthrop House if it break even...