Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forth in the report include division of marketing territory between the various Standard Oil Companies on almost the same basis as before the dissolution, ownership of the principal pipe lines, interlocking stock ownership, fixing of prices in the producing fields, excessive and discriminatory freight rates, and ownership of the basic patents for "cracking," the technical name for reducing crude oil to gasoline...
Other attempts at wireless photography have been made in the last two or three years, but none with the success of Dr. Korn's experiment. The picture just produced, though lacking in distinctness, gives great hopes for the future. The basic method is sound, and with the perfecting of the process which will come with time, the possibilities of the invention are almost without limit...
...second week the men will be sent to the artillery range to take up actual firing. The basic students, consisting of first and second year men will have instruction in driving while the advanced students are taking up reconnaissance and work with motors...
...chosen field. Examples to strengthen this argument are unnecessary, surely. Not that "the man on the street" ought to be able to distinguish at first hearing, the difference in sound and meaning of "Epithalamium" and "Epipsychidion"; but that, if only for his own good, he should respect the basic principles of his native tongue...
...hopes that the Russian people will be able to work out their own destiny and to regain in time their full economic power are sincere. But until Lenine has brought about more stable conditions and until he is willing to accept the necessary, basic demands, communistic sympathizers and propagandists have little right to ask the Administration to consider any policy of recognition...