Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this instance. Nor is there doubt that it has met them honestly and with the best interests of the undergraduate in mind. But there is even less doubt that undergraduates will resent the presence of the surplus and its disposition. The situation plainly calls for a restatement of the basic financial relation between college and student...
...firmly believe in the principle that an individual debtor should at all times have access to the creditor; that he should have an opportunity to lay facts and representations before the creditor and that the creditor always should give courteous, sympathetic and thoughtful consideration. . . . This rule is a basic obligation of civilization. It applies to nations as well as to individuals...
...details of the plan must be struck by the resemblance it bears to the present system of medical attention in vogue in our colleges. In fact, the plan is nothing more than Stillman Infirmary, grown up, and applied to society as a whole. Each grows out of the same basic facts, namely, that the physical condition of our people is of the utmost importance; that too often the individual in need of medical attention holds back in the face of the fees which medical care and hospitals entail; that these tremendous fees can be eliminated by everyone sharing some part...
...question: "If it be accepted that a culture, as distinguished from a mood or a tendency, must be informed by one great unifying conception, can it be said, with any degree of realism, that in our modern world, in which are found fundamentally divergent viewpoints in regard to every basic conception, something exists on a world scale to which can be given the name of culture? If such a culture exists or is emerging, a culture of which, as the report suggests, Christianity should be made the spiritual buttress, what is the basic idea which inspires...
...point is not that Russia adopted a "FiveYear Plan." The point is that, spurred by Josef Stalin, Russians have pursued the socialist line of their revolution and tried to bring every function of the national life-from tractors to abortions-under the regulation of a Planned Economic Order. Its basic concept is not one but an endless series of Five-Year Plans, stretching off into remotest future. Jan. 1, 1933 is the date set for completion of the Five-Year Plan about which everyone knows. Generally speaking it has raised Soviet production above the pre-Plan level, which level...