Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...untouched remains Porto Rico's basic problem?over-population. On the island live 1,543,913 persons, or 450 to the square mile as compared with 40 in the U. S. (In Barbados it is 1,000 to the square mile.) In one decade the population has increased 18%,. The result is that Porto Rico's resources, natural and economic, are exhausted. Birth Control, seriously agitated in the insular government, is blocked by the dominant Roman Catholic Church. Poverty and hunger are on all sides. A laborer is lucky to make $150 per year. Hookworm and tubercu- losis take...
...this almost the whole House of Commons cheered?Laborites, Liberals and most Conservatives?the basic weakness of Mr. Churchill being apparent...
...most colleges, especially in the West," Samborski explained, "the fraternities are the basic intra-mural units in the college, and they have developed strong competition among themselves. At Harvard, while the fraternities are not as powerful as elsewhere, they have shown that they bring out more men than teams of the three upper classes." This is shown by the fact that about 150 men report for inter-fraternity basketball, in comparison with an average of 50 reporting for interclass basketball. On the other hand, the athletic competition has also developed the club spirit within the fraternities at Harvard, according...
...leave the home for the factory." In his figurative "Speech from the Throne," Comrade Molotov explained this need. Russia's titanic Five-Year Plan has created a labor shortage so acute that womanpower must help manpower. The Plan MUST go through to provide Russia with the heavy basic industries necessary to fight a modern war. This war will be "defensive," according to Comrade Molotov, but it threatens. "The Soviet Government's chief danger today," he cried, "is armed intervention! . . . We alone have solved the employment problem. . . . I will close this part of my discourse by quoting from...
...language requirement remains the one really onerous restriction in the choice of courses at Harvard. In order to meet the requirement, hundreds of Freshmen and Sophomores sacrifice for elementary language study other courses in which they have some vital interest. Better preparation in languages at school is obviously the basic solution of the problem. At the same time, the difficulty would be obviated for many if knowledge of Spanish were put on a par with knowledge of French and German...