Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...step higher, the Administrative Board is known to favor shifting the burden of proof to those who want a change. Its basic position is that "there are certain rules in decent society which one observes automatically," and that excluding women from men's bedrooms during certain hours is one of these. The Administrative Board is not planning any revisions on its own; it will wait and see what the committee on Houses does, and then make up its mind...
...paying strictly on an hourly basic, Radcliffe is floating this order...
...best known case of pique with the tensions of "big time" intercollegiate athletics is the University of Chicago, which dropped football in 1939 and withdrew from the Western Conference in 1946. "The basic reason back of both moves," Chicago told the CRIMSON, "was that we were outgrown by the big state universities of the conference and could no longer offer much competition in most sports. It was bad for them and bad for us. Chicago is really in the small college class athletically...
...intended Willy Loman to represent more than just one man. Willy is more than a husband, a father, or a salesman who is failure. He is a man whom we see crushed to death by the world, and he is a symbol of all such men. That is the basic reason for the pessimism of "Death of a Salesman...
...that it is self-regulating. If the chain reaction gets going too fast, the solution heats up and expands, reducing its density and therefore its reactivity. So the reaction slows down automatically until the solution has cooled off. This built-in stability makes HYPO a safe and easy basic trainer for future atomic engineers...