Word: basically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Only 31 lawmakers elaborated on their basic "check one" answers to the poll. About a third of these pleaded that they lacked sufficient information to answer the questionnaire meaningfully...
...allowed to explore alien philosophies of government or economy; nowhere do I indicate that the faculty should not be at liberty to indict and analyze deficiencies in American life; nowhere do I hint at an orthodoxy that should trammel the thinking of any faculty member who has a basic respect for Christianity and a free economy. If he has notions at complete variance with these latter, which are, to the best of my knowledge, considered by the trustees of Harvard, the vast majority of Harvard alumni, and myself to be of critical importance to a free America and to enlightened...
Clark said that the University would not consider disciplining Shapley and Ciardi for their political actions. He said this would be an abrogation of Harvard's "basic tradition of freedom," and that the University could not be induced to depart from this tradition "by any fear that gifts will be withheld...
...plants that turn toward light. Luciferin may bear a relationship to the generation of light similar to the relationship that riboflavin bears to the absorption of light. If this is proved to be true, biochemistry will have made a long step toward understanding life itself, since life's basic energy comes from light...
...Jefferson-Jackson dinner President Truman picked up the challenge of the G.O.P., which had proclaimed the basic domestic issue facing the country...