Word: basically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...make contact with the revolutionists last week. In short order at Sao Paulo 2,000 youths enlisted to fight the rebels. President Washington Luis admitted that "this internal commotion is projected and directed by the governments of the states involved." He predicted that "saner elements" would prevail. Basic causes of Brazil's revolution: 1) "hard times" due to the enormous overproductions and depressed price of her chief crop, coffee; 2) the example and success of neighboring revolutions, now "catching" throughout Latin America...
...baiting Viscount Rothermere, declared that Soviet lumber was being offered "on the quiet" in London last week for $55.20 per "standard" (a standard equals 200 board feet; a board foot is a piece of lumber one foot square, one inch thick), a terrific cut under the London basic price of $65.25. Charging that a deal at this Red cut price had already been made by London's Central Softwood Buying Corp. Ltd. the Daily Mail moaned: "This will depress the value of our present British timber stocks on hand...
...problem of reducing the weight of aircraft engines, then all water-cooled. He enlisted in the Navy as a machinist's mate, was soon commissioned ensign and assigned by the Navy Department to aeronautical research. There he evolved the radial air-cooled motor which was to be the basic pattern for today's Whirlwinds...
...feature was transferred to now-defunct Harper's Weekly under Mr. Camp's name, and in 1897 to Collier's. The fame of Camp maintained the standing of the feature. After his death in 1925 the selections were ably handled by Grantland Rice, but the basic idea was openly condemned by coaches and experts as too restrictive, bad for football. Partly as a protest against the notion of Collier's omniscience, partly as a sop to provincialism, partly because it is good reading and food for argument, innumerable syndicates and local sportwriters the country over...
Weaslers. Sitting on the fence itself are the weaslers whose catchpenny slogan is "Law Enforcement." They actively avoid a binding stand on the basic question as long as possible. A referendum weasler is Senator Metcalf who puts off a declaration of his position until he sees how his Rhode Island votes this year. The "neutral" weasler who says...