Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...income of the fund offered to Harvard, it is stipulated, is to be used for research and experimental work in forest production, "to determine the basic facts essential to the successful practice of silviculture in the northeastern section of the United States, especially in New England...
Anathema. Like most Russian plays, Anathema is a plunge into the basic mysteries and contradictions of life, but Andreyev (author of last season's Theatre Guild success, He Who Gets Slapped) works with symbolized, metaphysical ideas instead of with the raw material of actual life from which Chekov and Gorky draw...
...play is, in a curious way, a combination of some of the basic legends of literature. There is the Faust motif in David's brief hour of the pleasure of giving which will cease when the last kopeck is gone; there is the Job motif in the curse that he suffers; there is a touch of Milton's Satan in the heroic defiance of Anathema; there is a strong suggestion of Stephen in the stoning of a Christlike man by the people "who know not what they...
...study of the fundamental unit of living human protoplasm and its functions-a goal at which biologists have been aiming for years. Experiments are being conducted with minute eggs cut in two, to see whether each half will grow. The effects of various toxins and bacteria on the basic cell may be investigated with far-reaching significance to human welfare...
Trade continued to expand, although money rates and retail prices proved stable. Production figures in several basic industries established new records and a distinct advance in wages was witnessed. But the speculative market for securities and staple commodities proved quiescent, with the declining tendency. No clear signs of general inflation are yet apparent and business men in general are exercising an admirable caution in regard to the future...