Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program of research into the scientific "no man's land" of rare metals, to study the basic physical properties and possible industrial uses of most of the forty metals as yet little understood or exploited, war announced today at the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering...
...months ago St. Louis was one of the worst one-week stands in the U. S. But last fall 586 St. Louisans, from Mayor Bernard Francis Dickmann down, joined a subscription group, the Playgoers, guaranteed basic audiences for touring companies. By last week ten good plays had been royally received in St. Louis, eight more were coming. Showmen checked up, agreed that St. Louis had become the road's best host...
Adviser William Jett Lauck, has been something less than successful. Unable for eight months to agree on recommendations, it finally issued a series of reports, most of which failed to make headlines though they did establish pretty thoroughly the basic troubles besetting hard coal. Among them...
From his travels about the country and his contacts with hundreds of dentists in his capacity as president of the American Dental Association, Dean Miner found the "most encouraging aspect was the extent to which these basic ideals have permeated the country and entered into the very fabric of the philosophy of dentistry...
...brief grounding in semantics is a life work in itself. Modern semantics dates from 1923, when two English professors. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, wrote a book called The Meaning QJ Meaning, followed by Ogden's invention of an 850-word vocabulary called Basic English. Indicative of the complexity of semantics is the fact that while Ogden is an orthologist and psychologist and Richards is an esthetician, important contributions have been made by a Polish mathematician, Count Alfred Korzybski, and a Harvard physicist, Percy Williams Bridgman. Semantics ranges from the equator of Basic English through the lush...