Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stupid Press Rapped. "A basic knowledge of scientific subjects is vitally necessary to the journalist if he is to avoid constant mistakes in his work. "Even the graduates of our best schools of journalism are untrained in the natural sciences. The typical journalist is grossly ignorant of music, architecture, painting and literature. His knowledge of esthetic principles is little above that of the average policeman. He emerges from the university blind to the best things of life, and he will blind his readers to them"-Professor Nelson Antrim Crawford, Kansas State Agricultural College...
...unfortunate predicament of the University Register has been only too long apparent. Its tardiness, its thanklessness, and its basic unpracticability have appeared quite plainly to all who were concerned with it. Heretofore no definite remedy has been suggested. It is now high time to find one, while the fate of the Register still hangs in the balance...
...Farmer's Pocketbook. The farmer wants to make a living. For him this is the basic fact. He sees the rest of the community benefited by the tariff, but the tariff does him no good because he has a surplus to sell abroad. What is he going to do about it? He asks in a louder and louder voice for price fixing?and Congress takes...
That ancient institution which we call a Court is really the supreme and basic invention of all civilization. It is the only device which has been found to work to prevent war when quarrels became acute. Without it, civilization itself would soon disappear; in fact, it could never have existed. It is the Court which everywhere has kept peace and this has been true in ever-widening circles. Even our humblest Court is that of the "Justice of the Peace...
Production rate in the basic industries during July was 2% over June and 20% over July, 1924, and there is little doubt that August has maintained this favorable showing. While crop production generally has fallen off, agricultural prices are up considerably, and rural prosperity in most parts of the country seems assured. Freight traffic in the railroads is both heavy and profitable. Lastly, retail sales have held up unusually well over the summer...