Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recognition of the basic eight-hour...
...schools and colleges should imitate the few pioneers who are now teaching the basic facts and principles of labor problems," says Mr. Barnes, " it would become vastly easier to understand business cycles, to retain prosperity, to prevent strikes and to bring about cooperation among nations against future wars...
...Presbyterian General Assembly of Canada voted to join the federation which the Methodists and Congregationalists had already accepted. The plan was worked out by the higher bodies of these churches after unity and cooperation had been tried in actual practice in Canadian towns. The new union, therefore, has a basic strength which mere resolutions cannot give. The Congregationalists surrender some, but not much, of the freedom of their individual churches. The Methodists, who in Canada have no bishopric, surrender nothing but a few bits of Anninian theology. The Presbyterians yield somewhat in the power of presbyteries over congregations. All three...
...Basic Students...
...others, it deals too much in platitudes. Professor Sherman's logic is that of the Chamber of Commerce mixed in with the bright sweetness of Pollyanna's elder brother. But, according to the publisher "This book is written by one intensely conscious of the situation". "For all its basic seriousness, it makes bright and lively reading...