Word: basely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of the conflicts and delays occasioned by this tremendous traffic load, the commercial efficiency of the city was seriously threatened by the congestion of its principal business district. The situation obviously called for an inventory an which to base relief measures...
...Senators Tydings of Maryland and Hawes of Missouri trying to protect him. Perceiving the situation Mr. Young insisted on talking economics, nor did he hesitate to startle the Senators-and many of his conservative business acquaintances-with his frankness, notably his opinion that investment value is a fairer base than replacement value upon which to scale the profits of such public utilities as radio companies...
...upon Article VIII of the covenant [of the League of Nations] that the French Government intend to base reductions of their armaments. It is, indeed, upon this basis alone?a basis which does not imply a prior application of mathematical ratios [the "Hoover yardstick''] . . . that it would be possible, in their opinion, to work out an agreement...
When Sir George Hubert Wilkins began his three-year long attempt to fly across the Arctic to Europe, Eielson, most experienced pilot of the region, became his pilot. Fairbanks, their base, has since become the base of most Alaskan flying. Point Barrow was their jumping point. In 1927 they made a westerly exploratory tour to north of Wrangel Island. Three times their plane came down on drifting ice. Eielson froze his fingers fixing the motor. At the third alighting they abandoned the plane. For 17 days they walked, jumped and crawled over the floes to Beechey Point, east of Point...
...villages about every 15 miles along the north Siberian coast where Eielson and Borland presumably floundered. They may be squatting sheltered in a native's snow-drifted skin-&-driftwood house. If so, they did not see or were unable to signal a searching plane which flew from Teller, base of relief operations, to the Nanuk. The plane is still at the ship, held down by dismaying weather, scant fuel...