Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis lies old antipathy between Moros and Christian Filipinos, and the objection of the former to being governed locally by the latter. This is the principal basic cause of unrest in the Moro Provinces. The Mohammedan period of religious devotion, which lasts from now until the tenth of the new moon, has served to accentuate the situation...
Governor Ritchie of Maryland: "This conference failed and all other similar conferences will fail as long as they refuse to face the basic question, whether or not prohibition enforcement should not be turned back to the States themselves...
...perennial interest which is manifested in all attempts at true spiritualism, in face of thousands of false alarms such as this seems to indicate some basic truth. Even the juggernaut of science cannot crush man's propensity to be metaphysical, for hope is as much a part of human nature as is trickery. Then, too, the presence of such sincere men as Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge in the field has added an air of genuineness to the discussions. Perhaps the very philosophy of William James gives the answer to the problem. All that is necessary is "the Will...
...Shenandoah Valley News, of Waynesboro-Basic, Va., published an editorial headed The New Yorker, under which appeared these pronouncements...
...whole, one valuable thing will be accomplished. Heterogeneous reading of groups will be replaced by definite subjects with compulsory investigation and some intelligent though on what men of some intelligent thought on what men of letters have said about the several subjects. A conception, however vague, of the basic facts of life and civilization is better than a vague inkling of Belloc, Walls and Chesterton...