Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barred by the familiar "lack of funds." When it becomes possible for the School to go ahead with the plan, it should be done. Enjoying already a high reputation for its technical business training, the School would deserve even wider prestige, if it encouraged future executives to study the basic problems which are too likely to be investigated only by economic theorists...
...consecrating that which like itself can turn to the past for historical justification. Being fundamentally conservative it is inevitable that it should be attacked by the young and the radical. Yet the Church has outlived its rivals. Adapting itself to the eventual pressure of circumstance, it has maintained its basic assertions and lays hold of the same qualities in man today, which it appealed to five hundred years...
...figures last week showed 2,040,000 cars were turned out in the U. S. and Canada, compared with 2,910,000 in 1930. 4,794.000 in 1929 (record year), 4.012,000 in 1928. Confronted by an alarming decrease, prophets turned over their problem to statisticians, gave them a basic theory that 21 million cars would continue to roll the roads, asked what 1932's production must be to maintain that figure...
There will be no scrimmage or other strenuous work-outs, the training consisting mostly of passing, signal drills on the basic plays, kicking practice, and occasionally some basketball games to keep the men in trim. Football shoes will be the only equipment given...
Rising Line. Dr. Breasted's basic theory, the keynote of all his work, he has stated succinctly: "Man's course is a rising line." Since his student days at Yale he had believed the beginning of man's upward course was in Egypt. The results of his diggings have given him abundant evidence with which to support this thesis, now generally accepted. Along the dry bed of the oldtime First Nile his Prehistoric Survey has found stone implements, first evidence of the appearance of man in Egypt, possibly a million years ago. Before that, Paleolithic man lived...