Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project for geophysical research, concentrating at the start on data of basic value in seismology, work will be carried on for five years under the Division of Geology by the aid of gifts to the University totaling $100,000. Half of this sum, in the form of an annual award of $10,000, is being supplied by the Rockefeller Foundation, while the remainder is to be donated by friends of the departments concerned...
...basic fact is that Harvard, in working away from the lecture system pure and simple, has not been able overnight to create the atmosphere and training which are required to make the tutorial system a success. Progress has naturally been tentative, and the precise goal has not always been clear to those involved in the transformation. At the present time Harvard education is essentially a compromise between the tutorial and the lecture system...
...another phase of the question, this action of members of neutral nations in joining the Chinese army, for certainly none will join the efficient Japanese one, while the basic motives are praise-worthy, will nevertheless undermine and render most difficult all attempts of neutral nations to interfere or arbitrate in the struggle...
...monocle was a symbol. It was exactly such an eyeglass that their late great father, the elegant, hawk-nosed Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) kept firmly screwed in his face all through his long and distinguished parliamentary career. It was exactly such a tariff program, right down to the 10% basic rate, that he fought for until stricken with paralysis in his jist year. In tribute to "Old Joe," as his Birmingham constituents fondly called him, all Conservative members of the House rose from their seats when his boy Neville finished speaking. They faced the distinguished visitors' gallery, where...
...Competition, the Law Review, and the work with the Legal Aid Bureau. The policy governing the Law School, as explained by Dean Pound, is both severe and strong. With an inflexible minimum requirement and many chances for independent work, opportunity is provided for acquiring real legal training and a basic knowledge...