Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Framed in armor-plated glass, fastened in by invisible glass screws to foil thieves, one of the four original copies of the Magna Charta, basic charter of freemen's rights handed by King John of England to his rebellious barons at Runnymede (A.D. 1215), arrived in Manhattan on the Queen Mary. Delivering the document to Mayor LaGuardia, to be sent to the New York World's Fair grounds, Sir Louis Beale, British commissioner-general to the fair, declared: "It is a treasure beyond price. . . . In this city and in this spot it is in the safest possible hands...
...more exact methods of finding out the who, what, when, where and why of radio listening, particularly on behalf of radio education, The Rockefeller Foundation in September 1937 set up the Princeton Radio Research Project, gave it $67,000 to cover an anticipated two years' work. To its basic problem the project has not yet found all the answers. But it has turned up a mass of "byproduct" information about listener habits, types, preferences. So interesting were some of these by-product findings that The Journal of Applied Psychology delayed publication of its February issue until last month, built...
...obvious flaw in Mr. Suma's thesis is his careful avoidance of the basic question of the morality of one nation forcibly jamming its desires down the throat of a weaker neighbor. Then again, while he builds up an effective indictment against the Chinese for their part in hastening the outbreak of the present hostilities, Mr. Suma says nothing concerning the earlier conquest of Manchuria and North China...
...every dance spot in the section trying to find a band good enough to back the notables present. Hill's outfit, from the Little Dixie, definitely fills the bill. Fine rhythm, with excellent brass solos, and a tenor sax man that plays Lester Young (Count Basic) ideas all go to make up a very solid swing style...
...bank account, he has made things hum at that tidy little airplane factory. Oil-stained apostle of hard work, he slept in the plant, did all his own test-flying, worked with the factory hands when he was not busy at the drawing board improving the basic Monocoupe, a two-seated monoplane ($3,875), or designing a bigger two-engined job. Last week, with the bank account considerably more than $20, Clare Bunch lifted his nose from the grindstone and went out to publicize his planes...