Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Progressive Kilpatrick: Should our schools make central the informal learning of experience and activity work, placing much less stress on formal, systematic assignments, discipline and obedience, and instead seeking to develop pupil initiative, discipline and responsibility as well as mastery of basic subjects by encouraging pupils to show initiative and develop responsibility, with teachers, while in control, serving primarily as guides...
...experiments followed the same basic pattern: one group of rabbits was immunized with Type I antipneumococcus serum,* then half the group was stupefied with large doses of ethyl alcohol (or ether) that kept them under from three to 30 hours. Then the entire group received injections of Type I pneumococci. A second group of control animals was not immunized, but half that group was intoxicated and all were injected with the virulent germs, either in the flank or the lung...
Some of the basic reasons for these good tidings were visible in last week's figures on the flow of money. With gold still pouring in, U. S. stocks crossed $14,000,000,000 for the first time. With pump-priming going full blast, the 1938 Treasury deficit reached $979,000,000 against $449,000,000 for the same period last year...
...purple gown of state legislators. Nor are civilian denizens unknown. Teachers antiquated in theory and doctrine, full of fine words, but lacking research, have been glimpsed. Sometimes the Gatling-gun tattoo of a tabloid printing press has been audible, and this sound has been diagnosed by some as the basic machinery which motivates the horse so powerfully...
Last week this basic unbalance finally brought the event the industry has been hoping against-widespread cuts in the price of crude oil. Initiated by small independents in the non-prorated States of Louisiana and Arkansas, the cuts were soon adopted by everyone, dropping the price from $1.22 to about $1.02, the first general cut since NRA. Thus brought into the open was a paradox which may knock the complex proration system galley-west: an efficient method of controlling production has been worked out, but since the Federal antitrust suit against the oil industry at Madison, Wis. last year, there...