Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Farnham Heyroth, 36, of Cincinnati, is a doctor of medicine turned chemist. He assists Professor George Sperti Jr., 31, an electrical engineer turned biochemist. They work in the Basic Science Research Laboratory of the University of Cincinnati which graduated them both. Recently Professor Sperti, with Dr. Heyroth's aid, perfected a method of irradiating foods without spoiling their taste. General Foods Corp. snatched up the rights to the Sperti process to commercialize...
Admitting the truth of the basic fact, there nevertheless seem to be several weaknesses in the recommendation. There are great differences in the rate that persons intellectually mature. Some mature early, finish secondary school in four years without difficulty, and are admitted to college, where they do good work. There are others who never attain the intellectual development of the first, and who find difficulty in finishing their preparation. In college they are misfits, and should be weeded out as soon as possible. But there is also a third group of those who mature slowly, but when they once finish...
Every time Signer Grandi almost had the problem solved, bang would go something or someone-frequently Dictator Benito Mussolini. Two months ago, however, II Duce radioed to the World his basic love of Peace (TIME, Jan. 26). He has kept quiet ever since. Signor Grandi, working quietly with British and French undersecretaries, finally reached the point where he could bring to Rome last week in the role of "honest brokers" British Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson and First Lord of the British Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. After the very briefest visit, after a most cordial audience with Peace-Announcer Mussolini...
...urbanely, the Yale planners might seem to be aping the British manner. Yet the Yale (and Harvard) "House Plan" had its forerunner in U. S. colleges long ago. In 1897 a Princeton political economy professor named Woodrow Wilson began thinking about the advisability of re-organization of college life. Basic trouble at Princeton, he thought, was the clubs. President McCosh had suppressed the Greek-letter fraternities; but their successors, the upper-class eating clubs, were just as bad. ''The side shows are swallowing up the circus," was Wilson's famed remark. "There is danger that we will develop socially...
Private Lives is written with a basic honesty that is apparent even beneath its not extraordinary plot and glib lines, almost every one of which is pure gold. Sample: "Some women should be struck regularly, like a gong...