Word: basic
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Father and daughter entered into conspiracy against the mother, a religious maniac with none of the other basic instincts of humanity. Father taught daughter to read, to figure, to think. He untaught her all that her mother tried to teach. Above all, he taught her to keep her own counsel, to retire into the castle of her own intelligence, safe against the shafts of her neighbors...
...this second encounter, Princeton won. In 1878, back Princeton came and met Harvard on Boston Common, Princeton again winning. The following year, 1879, Harvard again journeyed to Hoboken and again suffered defeat. During these three years the famous "fifteen" of Rugby tradition had been reduced to "eleven," and the basic line of cleavage established which in time was to produce a distinctive American game...
Still to those advocating the study of the classics from the standpoint of its value as a basic training the fact that "the number of secondary schools offering four years of Latin is more than double the number offering three years in French," cannot but be seen as anything but in the highest degree encouraging. Christian Science Monitor...
...following men attended the Basic Camp, optionally, and will be eligible for commission at the completon of their course in Military Science A. Gordon '27, W. G. Moody '27, R. O. A. Spalding '27, J. W. Teele '27, and W. H. Wister...
...that when industry is sound and lacks only capital to prosper, the investor who provides the last dollars needed secures the greatest profit, and does so most quickly. What has been true of American corporate reorganizations, it is felt, will also be found true of similar reorganizations of the basic and established European industries, with this country filling the role of financier...