Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coined about a century ago by the French Philosopher Auguste Comte, has been described as "the science of leftovers"-that is, a science which picks up crumbs spilled from the groaning table of the other social sciences.* But it has also been suggested that sociology be enthroned as the basic social science-a sort of central switchboard which would coordinate the others. Today sociologists are concerned with such things as family relations, social organizations, city life, crime. If cultural anthropology has concerned itself largely with the quaint customs of primitive tribes, sociology has concerned itself largely with the quaint customs...
...last eight years of world chaos, many a U. S. citizen has given fervent thanks that the U. S. is endowed with ample supplies of all but a handful of basic resources...
...been spared from getting down to cases about tanks, torpedo tubes, guns, engines, propeller shafts, observation instruments, etc. Manufacturing these requires one of the few basic materials the U. S. happens to lack-tin. So does manufacturing tin cans to hold the No. 1 necessity of war and peace-food...
...tradition, and got it perhaps by the near accident of digging for the truth about Abraham Lincoln. "That son-of-a-gun Lincoln grows on you," he once told a reporter. Before he finished The Prairie Years, which carried the biography to 1861, he had meditated on the basic Lincoln material, had achieved a clear, homely, sometimes lovely style. The greater demands of the Civil War material in range and stamina and subtlety unquestionably deepened and instructed him still further...
...settlement of the long-range issue can only be assayed as a victory for the "members of the opposition." Their basic charge was that the "eight years and up or out" tenure policy was stubbornly inflexible, and that if it were applied mechanically it would have sorry effects on Harvard teaching standards. The degree of flexibility which they advocated has now been incorporated into the tenure policy by the new system of swapping professorships between departments and by the faculty motion to approve frozen associate professorships. So far so good...