Word: basic
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...rule limiting any college athlete to two major sports a year. Any student can play football in the fall and basketball in the winter. He can play football in the fall and baseball or track in the spring. But he can take part in only two major sports. The basic idea back of this regulation is sound. Two major sports within a given period of nine months are quite enough for any athletic student to face. To take part in three or four major sports is not only overworking an athlete physically, but in many cases it is leaving...
...Paris (Fox). The assumption of special characteristics belonging to special classes or races-characteristics which stay the same no matter what is happening-is the basic device of this picture as it is of half the good comedies in existence. Just as a Scotsman in a vaudeville joke must be a pinchpenny, so the two Frenchmen who follow a roughneck sailor to pay him the $1,000,000 he ha? won in a lottery are always polite. No matter how much of a hurry they are in they never forget to take their hats off to each other. This...
...much longer and more disinterested view of basic problems was taken by Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts, in an article "Our Failure in the Philippines" in the January Harpers. An experienced newsgatherer, Grandson Lodge last year toured the world. In the Philippines, he says, he had a shock...
...marks another milestone in the steady progress of the graduate school since its inception in 1927. Its general aim, an interpretation by the student of the tendencies affecting general business conditions, is an academic expansion of the principles recently employed by the faculty in its survey of the leading basic industries engaged in the manufacture and distribution of building materials...
...There is something ideal in this marriage of immense interest. Many marriages fail for reasons other than those given in the court records*. . . When athletes of the Helen Wills type marry you can rest assured that the basic natural law of physical perfection in mating has been fulfilled. Little Poker Face is a young woman whose physical condition must be nearly perfect by virtue of the strenuous sport at which she excelled...