Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...good one. Balding Mr. Frank used few purple words, stood hard on commonsense. "A Program for a Dynamic America" (see p. 21) tiptoed by a few apparently impregnable New Deal forts (reciprocal trade agreements, foreign policy), but where the defenses were low, it attacked mercilessly. Taking as one basic premise the statement "the New Deal misunderstands economic America," the report smashed at what it termed defeatism and reaction in the New Deal, suggested that the passing of the frontier, the slowing-up of the birth rate did not necessarily mean that the nation's plant was overbuilt, nor that...
...light of this prospectus issued to the American people in 1932, the Program Committee has conscientiously audited the actual "state of the nation" after nearly seven years of New Deal control and before the abnormal stimulus of war demands began to blur the evidence of the basic soundness or unsoundness of the Administration's domestic policies...
...under a convention of 1909 (never ratified) which says that persons liable to military service for an enemy may be removed by a belligerent from neutral ships. But last week Britain backed down to the extent of offering to hand back to Japan nine of the 21 Nazis. Her basic reasons for this were: 1) to save Japanese "face"; 2) "One war at a time." This gesture was met by Japan (which also has one war already on her hands) with an order forbidding Japanese ships to carry military-age citizens of belligerent countries...
...waning '303 was Du Font's "nylon," an artificial silk billed as a formidable rival to natural Japanese silk. Nylon is technically described as "synthetic fibre-forming polymeric amides having a protein-like structure, produced by reacting diamines and dibasic carboxylic acids." Put more plainly, its basic materials are coal, air, water. Last week nylon stockings, as handsome as silk, continued to be sold only in Wilmington (see p. 76). Meanwhile Du Pont announced that the nylon chemicals would be put to many other uses besides stockings: greaseproof paper containers, non-cracking patent leather, waterproof clothing, flexible window...
...Freshmen's latest and biggest extra-curricular activity is worrying about how to run their extra-curricular activities. Tomorrow they'll be voting on this thorny problem: elected class officers, or appointments? Where there's smoke there's fire, and sure enough upon investigation this cockeyed situation reveals a basic paradox: only if and when the class votes thumbs down on elections, can they have any kind of elections they want. By all means, let the Yardlings have just what they want...