Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offering a curriculum for correctional administrators the Harvard Institute of Criminal Law has taken the first step in this line in the country's history; the move is significant as the first attempt to deal with a basic problem of the criminal--what to do with the offender when he's caught and convicted--by professionalizing the work of correctional administrators," Sheldon Glueck, assistant professor of Criminology stated in an interview yesterday...
...issued last week in Vatican City. Fortnight ago a vague 2,000-word official summary was released (TIME, May 25). The actual words of His Holiness last week were fresh and vibrant, precise and bold. Most remarkable were those passages in which the Supreme Pontiff pronounced squarely upon three basic elements in the life of almost every human being: the corporation, the factory, the machine...
...beginning of a career must be spent in learning the tools of the trade and its routine. Therefore, it has been the policy of the Department of State in recent years to assign all new officers to rather distant spots as Vice Consuls in order that by mastering the basic elements of foreign intercourse which in the present day is mostly founded on trade relations between countries he may have sound foundation on which to build principles of action in his later career. Likewise he learns to be considerate of foreign customs and foreign ways and that...
Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819-83) was married, but few people have heard of her husband, Isaac. Yet it was Isaac who first got hold of the basic formula for the Compound; he took it as part payment of a debt. In the hard times after the panic of 1873 Lydia, who never liked doctors, began to fix it up, pass it out to eager neighbors. The first bottle was sold in 1875. When Lydia got the idea of printing her picture with the ad, she soon became best known woman in the U. S. Pictures in newspaper offices were scarce...
...must be charged. The first point is not only economically wrong but is unfair. Certainly no more than absolutely necessary should be charged. The second point admits another fallacy on which the authorities are working. They have taken Dunster and Lowell houses as criteria on which to fix the basic charge. These two houses had the pick of the University at their disposal and were filled, in the main, with men well above the economic average of Harvard College. Rather than make the average high a slight risk should have been taken. The authorities themselves have admitted that there...