Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stade continued, "we often decide on the same men." This competition leads some administrators to fear that scholarships will eventually be used for embellishment rather than assistance. With several colleges seeking the same man, a stipend of $600 to $100 may serve merely as a lure. Of course, the element of need often results in the joint awarding of scholarship funds by several schools, what these officials fear is that this money may some day be used as a fancy red ribbon to attract the "glamour boys." at the expense of the needy student...
...differs from women's hysteria in one essential way: the men always stand to gain something, such as escape from prosecution or release from military service. They do not plan their illness deliberately for this purpose (if they did, it would be fraud or malingering), but the element of advantage is always present. None of the women patients stood to gain anything nearly so tangible from their hysteria, so far as the doctors could...
...final products are judged primarily on amount, although purity is important. The time element is also vital; Green set a new record with his elapsed time of four hours and 14 minutes. In order to get through the seven preparations in the required time contestants must know every step of the complicated process by heart...
...York, and Wales noted the "urgent need," asked that all denominations join in a common drive to restore religion to education. Indeed, added Winston Churchill on the floor of the House of Commons, "religion has been the rock in the life and character of the British people . . . This fundamental element must never be taken from our schools...
...Britain saw to it that the fundamental element would be safe. By the Education Act, religious instruction became compulsory in government-controlled schools, and all denominations made a preliminary agreement on the way it was to be taught. How has the act worked out? By last week, Britons had reason to feel satisfied: God was back in education...