Word: element
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before this tough language was deleted, Northwestern's Dean Simeon E. Leland charged that the medical profession is governed by "Petrillo and Fishbein economics." "Medicine," said he, "is the only profession where the element of competition comes only at the beginning ... If we had more, we would have better doctors. There would be more opportunity for medical research and competition would weed out the weaker ones as it does in other professions...
...great creative artist because he is a psychopath, concludes Dr. Brain, but if he has the other necessary qualities of mind, what the psychiatrist would call pathological may be an essential element in his genius...
...discovered by Hertz in 1887, and the first paid radiogram was sent from the Isle of Wight in 1898. The first public telephone exchange was opened in New Haven, Conn, in 1878. The "germ theory" of disease dates from the 1860s. It is hard to find an important technological element in modern life that did not have its roots in the age of pre-Planckian innocence...
...Russians also knew, theoretically, how to build a chain-reacting pile. They were aware that such a pile would transmute Uranium 238 into a "trans-uranian element," i.e., plutonium. They realized that to generate atomic energy, either as a bomb explosion or as peaceful power, would be extremely difficult but certainly not impossible. Two Soviet scientists speculated about what "special devices" would be needed...
Once the plot of "Intruder in the Dust" has been separated from Mr. Faulkner's unique prose style, its characters are found sadly lacking in fullness. The author's writing was frequently so confusing as to give the story an additional element of mystery and suspense it would not otherwise have...