Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...well-established American principles of free competition and fair play. If this kind of thing goes on in America, the Phillies certainly missed a bet in the last World Series. They should have asked the Yanks for Joe DiMaggio . . Nothing, not even our tri-color tube can remedy the basic defect of the system you adopted, namely, its total inability to receive any picture whatsoever on the 9,000,000 sets outstanding . . . today." t With that off his chest, Folsom went right ahead with his and Pilot Radio Corp.'s suit to stop the FCC from enforcing its color...
...controls. In an all-out war, said Russell C. Leffingwell, who at 72 had just stepped down from the chairmanship of J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc., such controls are necessary. But in the twilight period of half-war, half-peace that lies ahead, they would stifle the economy. The basic problem, wrote Leffingwell in Barren's, is to stimulate production, discourage nonessential civilian consumption. Price-fixing, he insisted, would do neither...
...while explaining at the same time how he got that way. Sometimes, as in writing about fifth-rate Poet Angelica Balabanoff, Wilson's ivory-tower reflections lead him straight into nonsense: "We have lost medieval Latin and 18th Century French, and have not yet arrived at Basic English; and in the meantime we have to do the best we can talking all the languages at once, like Marx and Engels in their correspondence, like Joyce in Finnegans Wake, like Eugene Jolas in his polyglot poetry, and like Angelica Balabanoff in these poems." But such tedious stuff is flanked...
...beginners were exposed to some basic principles with simple nouns and a few sentences, while the advanced section conducted informal conversation in English after seeing a movie and listening to language records...
Effects on Students: All men would enter training at 18 or when they complete high school. They would join a Training Corps, partly under civilian control, going into the regular army after they have completed basic schooling...