Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bell Laboratories developed the panel dialing system, first installed it extensively in 1919. The Bell telephone companies (16 million telephones) also use a step-by-step system, through certain patent agreements with Automatic Electric Inc. By other reciprocal patent agreements, other manufacturers are enabled to make variants of the basic dialing systems, offering their wares to independent telephone companies (four million instruments...
...innovations are often more attractive on paper than in subsequent actuality. The great problem of the new proposal will be to imbue its spirit into the flesh of University administration. While grades, theses, and courses dominate the standards of University Hall, it will be exceedingly difficult to select the basic material for the fellowships and have the winners free from the present pit-falls of the Graduate School...
Next was born TripleX. Under the same basic title, the magazine would follow public taste like a weather vane, giving in turn stories of war, flying, crime, etc. Currently it is Triple-X Western (115,000). Author Jim Tully got his start when Triple-X first published his Beggars of Life...
This system of "budgetary limitation" was championed from the first by France, opposed for years by Great Britain, opposed to the bitter end by Mr. Gibson. He abstained from voting when this basic clause passed the Preparatory Commission, then attached a U. S. reservation exhorting the forthcoming World Disarmament Conference to reconsider...
...Crile's experiment toward creating living material out of dead is highly exciting. Basic material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur. The living combination of these is exceedingly complex. Best of chemists have been unable to decipher the protoplasmic interrelations. Could they do "so, they could make protoplasm in their laboratories...