Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notes between the notes: The new Count Basic of "Miss Thing" was made under some unusual conditions. Late one night after a recording session at the Brunswick studio, some of the big-wigs in the studio asked the Count to play the "Miss" which he had just written a few days before in Boston. Count did, and unbeknownst to the band, the rendition was recorded on a 16-inch master in the control room. The result, released this week on two sides of a Vocalion record, is very loose and easy with a tricky last chorus--the best...
Analyzing "The Teaching Angle" as a basic cause of the prevalence of tutoring, Paul W. Cherington '39 in an article in this same issue levels four charges at the calibre of teaching in Harvard...
...large extent the tentative, day-to-day diplomacy of the anti-fascist powers is attributable to the fact that the statesmen of the "Peace Front" have been slow to find conclusive answers to these questions. But facts are known, and the basic facts go back to the days before the last war. The Nazi economy has merely given a new twist to these basic facts of Germany's 70-year-old economic history...
...where she was inclined to talk just a little too much for a diplomat's wife. Result was that soon Comrade Ivy was reported as having "moved" to Sverdlovsk, in the Ural Mountains, some 900 miles east of Moscow, where she was following her big hobby of teaching "basic English"-some 850 "essential" English words-to young Russians. Mme Litvinoff was brought back to Moscow for big social functions of the Foreign Commissariat. Last autumn, however, at the usual Soviet reception to diplomats the invitations were written simply in the name of the Foreign Commissar, omitted the usual mention...
Richards was co-author of "The Meaning of Meaning" and "Foundations of Aesthetics," and wrote "Principles of Literary Criticism," "Science and Poetry," "Practical Criticism," "Mencius on the Mind," "Basic Rules of Reason," and "Coleridge on Imagination...