Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...south, the Bolshevist Cantonese Government launched a vigorous offensive against Hunan Province, a chief basic ally of Wu. He, co-victorious with Chang in the north, hastened 1,000 miles southward to defend what may loosely be called his "rear guard...
...appreciation more difficult and it is only the strict avoidance of set formulae and taboos which may keep it from becoming less rare. The graduate who brings his family back to parade and cheer is rendering homage to his totem, but the parades and the cheers are not the basic thing. And unless he finds in his sacrifice a genuine glimpse of the true value of his loyalty, an idea of the work that is being done, of the changing standards, of the growing spirit, his totem becomes but a dry and lifeless symbol, the very negation of that driving...
...President replied: "It was in accord with basic truths of the universe that the signers of the Declaration of Independence declared their reliance upon the protection of a Divine Providence. Founded upon religion, our Government has derived strength and stability from the religious nature of its people...
Nevertheless native operators as well as shippers know the basic need for a national merchant marine. They hope perpetually that operating costs will contract or that some managerial genius will arise to keep national ships moving so efficiently that they can really meet foreign competition...
...have marked the course of stock prices and so-called Wall Street sentiment . . . constitute a generally harmful nuisance. They also constitute a reflection on the steadfastness and sobriety of a portion of the community. . . . The only circumstances under which, in a country with the resources, the resiliency and the basic elements of ours, a temporary descent into the cyclone cellar becomes warranted are-leaving aside grave foreign complications- either manifestations of stark and persistent overproduction or overtrading, the advent of a major credit disturbance, or acute monetary stringency. None of these circumstances exists today or is even remotely likely...