Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Safest State has been Pennsylvania, with a 40% reduction; least improved, Maine, by one percent. Right in step with the national trend is New York, 20% safer. Last week for New York motorists there came a payoff. Available for safe drivers were reductions of as much as 15% in basic automobile liability insurance rates. Lowest rate was for Class A motorists, those who in the first 21 months of the last two years had no accidents, or one involving only property damage. In Manhattan, where the annual premium for a basic policy covering $5,000 property damage...
Only Ghandi and an occasional actress will deny the basic importance of food, but those who are committed to the task of educating will argue that even more important is the locale and environment in which students keep body and soul together. In 1930 Dean Hanford said that the House System had done away with the deplorable effects of "eating around," and President Conant has on several occasions pointed out the broadening, stimulating and even educational effect of the dining hall system upon those who share its blessings...
...with positive electricity, some with negative; some were electrically neutral or inert. Some were "heavy" or massive in relation to others-the ratio being about that of a ton to a pound. The physicists wound up. for the time being, with a nicely balanced table of discovered and hypothetical basic particles of matter, as follows...
Harvard University defends its basic beliefs by aiding the persecuted in its small way.... Its funds are for the defence of its underlying principles. It is not so much the moral indignation, but the renewing of its own true strength. It states our reason for living. Walter Muther...
...exceedingly complex (Korzybski calls it a "non-Aristotelian system"), but its method of instruction is simple. Chief instrument of training is the "structural differential." By handling this implement, students (who call it "the semantic rosary") learn graphically that there are different, "nonidentical" orders of meaning connected with each basic phenomenon. Thus, one plate in the implement represents a phenomenon (e.g., an apple), and the holes in it represent its infinite number of scientific characteristics, some perceptible to man, some unknown. Linked to that is a disc representing the physical, perceptible object, and to that in turn are linked labels which...