Word: basic
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...Town (United Artists) is Grover's Corners, N. H., population 2,200. It is a basic unit of U. S. life, lost in the continental mass of U. S. farmland...
...control was a priorities system, by which it could expedite or delay all shipments of war goods. (Only 25 industries, with total capital of $733,000,000, were classed as non-war.) Meanwhile the price-fixing committee, answerable directly to Wilson, set price limits at the source, on all basic materials. Before the Armistice it was extending its control over retail prices...
...poetic materials to which Americans always respond-the casual routine of their lives amid the sights, sounds, smells of the American earth. Because Sam Wood, who directed Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and a splendid cast have transferred Our Town, the play, to film without disturbing this basic poetry, Our Town, the picture, is a cinema event...
...pyramid's base are a number of unconnected sense impressions, such as that boiling water is turbulent while cold water is quiet. As progress is made up the pyramid, sense impressions are connected by theorems and syntheses which cover more & more phenomena, so that the basic statements need be fewer (the cross section of the pyramid diminishes). Such progress was made, for example, when heat was found to be energy of molecular motion; and when light, X-rays, gamma rays, wireless waves, ultraviolet and infrared radiation were all disclosed as electromagnetic vibrations. At the pyramid's apex there...
With all its imperfections, at which irreverent laymen are inclined to yah-yah, the English and American Common Law is the world's most sensitive instrument of justice. Its scales have been adjusted during more than 600 years of human experience with the same basic procedure: jury trial.b For the presentation of evidence, the raw material of justice, English law by the end of the 19th Century had arrived at a stable system of rules. Not so, however, U. S. law, which has not one but 50 legal systems (48 State courts, Federal Courts, District of Columbia courts). Without...