Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee undertakes, in the sections to follow, to chart the course of policy in varied fields of national life in terms of this basic position...
...will, in time, find that it simply cannot provide, because it has neglected to make Economic America a going concern producing enough wealth annually to foot the bills. This is the blind alley into which the New Deal has led and is still leading America. And this is the basic blunder which the Republican Party must, in the interest of the social welfare of the American people, set itself boldly to correct. This is the first step towards a sound and permanently feasible social program...
...show concentrates on the Middle Ages' last four centuries (up to 1400), when its biggest and best products were the Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals which soared up all over Europe. Since it could not show this monumental architecture, the Boston Museum picked smaller objects to illustrate the basic medieval concept of art: a devotion which lavished technique and materials on the work in hand far beyond any practical need...
Sweden has had a free press for 174 years, guaranteed by one of the most liberal constitutions in the world. The Free Press Statute of 1812, Magna Charta of Swedish journalism, is one of the four basic laws of Sweden. It gives every citizen the right to publish what he pleases, makes censorship of any kind illegal...
Every month multiplies the number of ambitious plans for "Federal Union" of the democracies, of Europe, of the world (TIME, Feb. 19). Basic to such plans is recognition of the fact that European reconstruction and the problem of Germany are closely, not to say, desperately, related. Yet who among these planners has envisioned a credible future-or any future at all-for Germany...