Word: basic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Four months of army service within the past two years and excellent physical condition, are essential requirements for all these seeking admission to the ski unit. Men who have not aquired the necessary military experience must first undergo a 13 months basic training course...
...artists have already begun hoarding against impending shortages. Most practical plan for saving at the production end was one advanced by the American Artists' Professional League: to economize on variety by reducing the artist's palette from a possible maximum of 400 colors to 13 basic pigments...
...Hess developed his Liaison Staff, an organization whose three basic principles, in utter departure from previous Occidental practice, were: "Everyone can spy. Everyone must spy. Everything can be found...
...most striking thing about both teams Saturday was the complete lack of defensive strategy. In place of the four, five, six, seven, and eight man defenses, the loops, slashes, and drifts of the Harlow system, we saw nothing but basic six and seven man line--and little charging...
Somchow Americans cannot take the Land of the Rising Sun seriously. Perhaps it is because the Empire has made such a bad showing in China, or because Japan is so far away; or simply because the Japanese premier is named Tojo. But undoubtedly the basic reason is a confidence in our invulnerability, a conviction that Japan can never sail all the way across the Pacific and strike at our coast. This is, to a certain extent, perfectly correct, but the trouble is that it applies just as much to our fleet attacking Japan...