Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unchanged Issue. Though the Navy piled technical evidence against the treaty mountain-high before the Foreign Relations Committee, it had not visibly altered the basic Senate sentiment for the pact. The issue remained unchanged: 21 cruisers with 8-in. guns as demanded by the Navy's General Board v. 18 such cruisers allowed by the treaty...
...Smoot Tariff Bill continued to blow through the public press. President Hoover was implored to use his veto power. Potent businessmen were quoted at length on the economic evils that would follow in the law's wake. Editorial writers blazed away at it in long double-leaded leaders. The basic economic argument was as follows...
...industry, collapsing from its own unwieldy weight, should be rationalized. To accomplish this. Governor Norman in November announced that the bank had formed a subsidiary, Securities Management Trust. Ltd. It was this company which he and his Old Lady used last week to make their entrance into the most basic of all industries...
...offer the humble opinion that the value of athletics should not be measured in terms of victory, and that an unfortunate series of defeats is no cause for alarm. The desire to win is, of course, a basic motive in competitions of any sort, but whether a team wins or loses is of no consequence so long as that motive is there. Physical development and the moral benefits of good sportsmanship in competition continue to be the chief virtues of college athletics, despite the victories or losses of individual teams. If the fundamental desire to win no longer burns...
...from the poetic point of view." Then comes this significant addition, "what makes a literary work prose or poetry . . . is a matter of approach and of return. By return I mean some device by which a poem is brought continually back to its starting-place--something which keeps the basic emotional symbol constantly reappearing throughout the poem...