Word: basicly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...established in 1911 to maintain his funds for "aiding technical schools, institutions of higher learning, libraries, scientific research, hero funds, useful publications, and by such other agencies and means as shall from time to time be found appropriate therefor." A notable addition to the Carnegie Institution's basic $27,000,000 endowment was the half-million which Mrs. Edward Henry Harriman, sole heir and active manager of the late great railroad organizer's $100,000,000 estate, gave in 1918. She was and is interested in problems of human heredity...
...folksong, of the tragic triangle of Frankie, Johnnie and Nellie Bly. Composed of a series of simple quatrains, the song has been altered and elaborated by so many artists, including John Barleycorn, that no one person can ever have heard or imagined all its verses. Yet the basic story has simple, tragic dignity which does not depend on the length or bawdiness which always characterize its rendition. Frankie was a harlot. Johnnie was her man. But Johnnie loved Nellie Bly. So Frankie shot her man. "He was her man, but he done her wrong," explains every refrain. The verse...
...seen significant advances in the professional schools and great expansion during this period. President Lowell's great contribution has undoubtedly been in tais general levelling up of the undergraduate's intellectual opportunities. It is a twenty-year period that will become notable in Harvard's history for this basic intellectual betterment. Yale men will join with their Harvard friends in the felicities of the occasion. Yale Alumni Weekly...
...basic principle of decentralization, its independence of power resources, electric light, its amazingly simplified practicality in the perfection of detail has convinced many of the most obdurate, and has frightened many of the most farseeing. For in its widest implication the Dymaxion house is rather a frightening phenomenon. It threatens the architectural aesthetic round on an accumulative tradition, of Roman, Romanesque and Renaissance design. It dispenses with contracting engineers, with servants, with such domestic appendages as laundries, custom built furniture, electric light bulbs, carpets. It threatens the present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean...
Defense. When debate opened in the House, the bill's principal author, Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, gave a three-hour lecture on its meaning. His chief points were: 1) tariff protection means Prosperity; 2) rates on basic commodities (beef, butter, wheat, wool, etc.) were first fixed, then related products were adjusted therefrom; 3) minor crops were given special protection to induce farmers now producing surplus cereals to turn to them as crop variants; 4) "apparent changes greatly exceed actual changes" in the bill; 5) "We should be self-sustaining and self-sufficient...