Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Basic question the U. S. press immediately asked was: had this Democratic President made any commitments comparable to the moral ones assumed by the last Democratic President with regard to "foreign entanglements"? To his full height in the Senate rose young Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson and namesake of one of the men who drove Woodrow Wilson wild on the League of Nations issue, to ask the Secretary of the Treasury for a full accounting of the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, to see if any financial commitments were implied by the President's program. Senator Lodge...
Professor Perry advocated a strong stand against those nations who propose to "root out" freedom of thought. "We are confronted with powers in the world which deny our basic creed of liberty," he stated. "They have elected to be our enemies and they are our enemies. We have no common ground on which we can unite. Between them and us there is a state...
...least one representative of each of the 70 basic anthropological types of white men are found at Harvard," Sheldon said. He pointed out, jokingly, that there was more indication that the Yardlings represented the New York mental cases than the college men in the Mid-West. His associates are now in Africa, photographing Liberians...
...copies a year. But much bigger things are in the offing. Allen Lane is now on a four-month tour of India and the Near East. If those markets look as good as they sound, he will begin his biggest venture yet: publishing Penguin books in Basic English, a simple 850-word vocabulary sifted out by Orthologist-Critic Charles Kay Ogden. Besides the prospect of getting rich while combining two of the liveliest ideas in England, Publisher Lane may also point the way to matching, in the democracies, the vast book editions made possible under dictatorships through State-controlled publishing...
...continued: "The basic reason why farm prices and incomes have averaged no higher, over a run of years, is that farmers' goods and services are available in larger quantities than people are willing to pay for at rates the farmer wants to get. Prices and incomes low in money terms are society's way of putting pressure on the weaker farmers to quit. If this form of pressure is lifted, some other form of pressure, here or elsewhere, must be exerted...