Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Celts, an ancient people, started somewhere near the banks of the Rhine, spread loosely through Europe, crossed the Pyrenees into Spain, and reached Ireland and England only a few years before the Roman invasion of 55-A. D. They have a basic language. Today linguists agree that the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and Breton languages are related to the Celtic. The Basques, however, a mountainous folk, were little influenced by the Celtic invasion of Spain in the 6th Century B. C., have today a completely unrelated language...
...picture painted for the 15,000,000 current U. S. investors by Author Reis is as disheartening as that which a 1933 book 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs painted for purchasers of a long list of U. S. advertised products. Mr. Reis's basic point is that, though the public assumes the New Deal has made U. S. banking and finance safe for the small investor, nothing of the sort has yet taken place. After long, sorry rehearsals of fiscal crimes committed "rider the Old Deal, he delivers this warning cry: "It is imperative that the investor rid himself...
...will necessitate especial care in the selection of applicants so as to insure the admission of enough Freshmen for whom this course is fundamental. Inability to gain admission to Music 1 in Freshman year may well result in turning away many potential music concentrators. In like manner, Music A, basic course in the theory of music, is being pared to one half its size...
...TIME takes the crux of Woolfism for its cover caption: "It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple Virginia Woolf has turned her back on the microscopic detail of Naturalism, and like the French painters of her own generation, turns to simplification and to the basic problems of Life. TIME expresses her ideas better than any other critic has done. Says TIME: "The lives of human beings are even less observable indications of the same pattern but serve to mark the wavelike motion of life's force." Doesn't this serve as the final...
Casually announcing that the Government will spend a total of $4,315,500,000 in 1937, $324,755,000 more than last year-most of it on warplanes,ships and guns-Mr. Chamberlain let fly two hammer blows: 1) Britons' basic tax on net incomes will be raised to live shillings in the pound (25%). A Briton with a wife and child who earns $5,000 a year would pay, after benefiting from various exemptions, $585 to the Exchequer, more than seven times as much as a U. S. citizen in the same position pays to Washington...