Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong sophomore element in the first boat reverses Coach Tom Bolles' early March boating estimates of a varsity shell made up mostly of voteran oarsmen and confirms his early March statement that building crews is full of imponderables...
Myrna Loy as the mother and Jeanne Crain as the eldest daughter are in their element. Long the queen of the understanding wives, Miss Loy is superb as the brake on Gilbreth's genius. Miss Crain, of course, has stars in her eyes; she is an ideal selection for the heroine of the high school prom...
...varied talents and striking personality, the late Robert T. Nelson was a great talker. Before his death in 1935, he awed his friends' by being able to discourse windily for hours on almost any subject. Among his accomplishments was his "discovery," around 1918, of an "element" now called vrilium, to which he attributed prodigious curative powers. Nelson did not explain exactly what he thought vrilium was, but he did claim that it was "radioactive...
Joint Instruction has, however, cut down the element of speculation in dating. "When they come now," Purtell says, "they know who and what they're looking...
...raise this picture from the level of the ordinary to that of greatness, the element of mental transition is emphasized. Posing as a peddler, Flynn makes love to Miss Smith. When she is completely enraptured he tells her that he is a sheep man. At first she rejects him; she can't understand him because he believes differently than she does. But at the end of the picture she realizes that she erred. It makes no difference who you are or what you are, she says, I love you anyhow. Flynn recovers from a bullet which felled him a minute...