Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Corps cadets used to get a year's schooling at Randolph and nearby Kelly Field. Randolph gave them their primary training in simple, low-horsepowered planes, and an intermediate ("basic") course in faster, higher-powered (400-450 h.p.) ships. They finished at Kelly on still bigger & faster ships, were then ready for tactical duties, second lieutenants' commissions. Early this year, to meet the expanding Air Corps's demand for more pilots, the courses at Randolph and Kelly were telescoped to ten weeks each. Primary training was farmed out to 18 private schools...
...theory of emergent evolution holds that space, time, matter, life are not independent of each other but form an organic whole. Reiser's basic space-time-matter trinity is about as mystical a concept as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. He finds it religiously inspiring, scientifically sound. Typical points...
...refrigeration work impressed Diesel with the amount of heat generated when gases are compressed. This is the basic principle of the Diesel engine, which has no electric ignition. In a Diesel, air is sucked into the cylinder, then highly compressed by the piston motion so that its temperature rises to around 1,000° F. Atomized fuel is then shot into the cylinder where it is ignited by the heat. The high temperature enables the Diesel to burn cheap fuel. Powdered coal and cheap oil were the first fuels that Rudolf Diesel puttered with...
...publicity stunt, Safeway's refusal to go along on the increased markup was in line with a basic policy laid down by its industrious. 130-lb. president, Lingan Alan Warren. "When you get wide spreads you are vulnerable," Warren once said. "That is why Safeway does not believe in making too much profit on any one thing." It was also, as events turned out, insurance that Safeway need feel no qualms when Thurman Arnold's men get to Colorado...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, advocated sending American ship convoys to Ireland and suggested a basic revision of "our whole neutrality policy." He also stated that the United States could prevent Japan from entering the war by issuing a "flat and clear warning that we will fight if she attacks Singapore or the Dutch East Indies...