Word: basic
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Northern Blockade. Basic point made by the Allies in last fortnight's Altmark affair, when the British destroyer Cossack raided a fjord of neutral Norway to liberate 299 British seamen taken from the late raider Admiral Graf Spec's, victims, was that German use and abuse of Norwegian waters to elude the Allied blockade must stop. While the grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland...
...insist," he continued, "that if a student is, at the end of a college education, to seek employment in industry, his education should have been a help, not a hinderance, towards obtaining a chance to show his ability. The only way to insure this is to take basic courses in the sciences and in economics. More advanced training in these fields is advisable if possible...
...article in the Progressive, starts his confessio fidei with a criticism of the modern day plan of attack upon existing evils. Like any would-be reformer, he tears up the proffered plans for reorganization as inadequate. However, the importance of his criticism lies in his concentrated attack on the basic attitude of most contemporary students of society. Furthermore, while pressing the attack, he lays the framework for a new approach...
...years almost exclusively to the "little about a lot", the student is free as an upperclassman to delve into his favorite "lot about a little." It is upon a similar pattern that Harvard's area plan should work out. While turning over the Freshman and Sophomore years to basic and general courses may be criticised as a step backwards, still--as long as the preparatory school fails to provide the broad foundation necessary--the college must take upon itself the job of filling the gaps...
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...