Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what it did. In many of its pronouncements there was the sort of something-must-be-done breast-beating which appears annually at U. S. denominational conferences. Yet in the reports it adopted the conference came near its goal, which was to present to the world a series of basic, minimum propositions on which all Protestantism could agree. These had been threshed out, in French, English and German, at daily meetings of five sections of the conference, comparatively small groups manned by its best minds, for whom experts in advance had prepared masses of data...
This hijacked kidnapping was easily the most important event of the year in Eastern Asia. While the Generalissimo was held captive in Sian, a stronghold surrounded by Chinese Communist armies with whom General Yang was on amicable terms, Dictator Chiang decided to reverse a basic policy of his Nanking Government -its hostility to Chinese Communists. For nearly ten years Chiang had fought the Reds and avoided fighting Japan. His Government now made peace with the Communists, announced proudly the "unification of China," and ever since Nanking has been taking a more & more courageous line with Tokyo. What General Yang personally...
...last week reductions in advertising rates, effective with their October issues, though both magazines are showing increases in circulation. The Journal cut is from $9,500 to $8,500 a page for black & white, McCall's from $8,100 to $7,800. This gives both approximately the same basic rate of $2.90 per page per thousand circulation as Woman's Home Companion and Good Housekeeping. Likely reason for the rate cut: these four women's magazines showed a combined advertising linage gain of less than 3% for the first six months of 1937, as compared with...
...integrity, fidelity to the game of golf, and a sense of his great responsibility to employers and employes, manufacturers and clients and to his brother professionals, transcend thought of material gain in the motives of the true Professional Golfer. It is fundamental that the Professional Golfer must understand the basic principles upon which his profession is established; otherwise he cannot . . . work for the good of Golf." Last week this solemn creed was imputed a hollow mockery by the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, which accused the Golf Ball Manufacturers' Association, PGA, President Jacobus and several other members...
...Army. But when he tried to turn out the lights per regulations, his patients threw things at him. Threatened with his revolver, "they howled with joy. threw all the rest of the things." Two shots over their heads brought an amused reprimand from the Colonel, who suggested: "The basic function of a Hospital, Private Bemelmans, is to cure men, not to shoot them...