Word: basically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McNiff reported that a great deal of interest has been shown in the "collection of basic books" used in Lamont. Other colleges are also studying the simplified method of cataloguing conceived for the College library...
...department may establish its own basic course. Under the present system, both air and army students take Military Science 1, though the branches drill separately. In advanced courses the branches are separate. Army offers Mil, Scl, 2, 3, and 4; Air Force...
There was one new condition: farmers would have to accept marketing quotas on their crops if they wanted full support. There were other new features: price support for "certain non-basic" commodities -wool, tung nuts, honey, Irish potatoes and dairy products, including whole milk -were made permanent at levels up to 90%. Furthermore, the Secretary was "authorized" to support any other commodity he wanted. Even perishable fruit & vegetables will get some of his bounty-the bill set aside approximately $100 million a year from custom revenues so that truck farmers could get in on the grab. ^ Farmers had long expressed...
...five basic commodities-wheat, corn, rice, cotton, peanuts-the bill extended the present 90% parity support through another year. This would fall to 80% in 1951, to 75% the following year. But in either year the Secretary of Agriculture could set support prices above these figures at his own discretion, up to the magic 90% level. Tobacco, the sixth basic commodity, got support at 90% in perpetuity, or as long as the law is unchanged...
...British, whose Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack and whose woollens clothe some of the world's better-tailored figures, have been doing some basic thinking about clothes moths. Last week Textile Expert R. W. Moncrieff told how clothes moths (Tineola bisselliella) got their depraved craving for wool, and how modern chemists are persuading them to let the stuff alone...