Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Griffith report was not considered an expose but an explanation of approved methods for aiding deserving athletes. "The basic principle of the Western Conference is that an athlete is entitled to every consideration which might be accorded a non-athlete, but nothing further," Griffith said. "The percentage of athletes holding scholarships is almost identical to the proportion of the number available to the total enrollment...
Chief sufferer was the Maritime Commission. A fund of $200,000,000 for ship construction was cut to $125,000,000. Poulticed away to nothing (on a point of order-that there was no basic law authorizing their continued existence) were two White House growths: National Resources Planning Board, Office of Government Reports. Cut were estimates for the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the Veterans' Administration, the Civil Service Com mission, building projects. Tennessee Valley Authority barely escaped a bandage that would have tourniqueted the life...
...common guilt as regards the origins of the wars must not blind us to the incalculable issues at stake in the outcome of these wars. . . . An interpretation of the present conflicts as 'merely a clash of rival imperialisms' can spring only from ignorance or moral confusion. The basic distinction between civilizations in which justice and freedom are still realities and those in which they have been displaced by ruthless tyranny cannot be ignored. ... To suggest that nothing of consequence is at stake in the success of Japanese, German and Russian designs on China, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland...
...they say God tells them that the Allies are fighting a righteous war. They have taken their stand solemnly, and we may assume that they will stand by it, and preach for it, and defend it in the same spirit with which they uphold the most basic belief of their religious faith the very existence of God. But how likely is it that they will...
Since July 1938, when eastern U. S. railroads wangled from ICC an increase from 2? to 2½? a mile for basic (coach) passenger fares, the weatherbeaten nose of Daniel Willard of Baltimore & Ohio has been out of joint. During his 60 years in railroading and 30 years as president of B. & O., Dan Willard has been a competitive spirit, and when he fought the increase (which was forced on B. & O.) he protested loudly that it was playing squarely into the hands of the bus lines...