Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asserting that the old forces of nationalism and imperialism, rendered doubly intensive by the totalitarian state, were still the basic fact in Europe, James G. McDonald, former chairman of the Foreign Policy Association and present editorial writer for the "New York Times," traced the development of the "Realignment in Europe" in Emerson D last night...
...regimented and half free. Which course does this Administration propose to follow? There is only one man who can answer this question, and that man is the candidate for re-election to the Presidency. National economic planning-the term used by this Administration to describe its policy-violates the basic ideals of the American system. . . . The price of economic planning is the loss of economic freedom. And economic freedom and personal liberty go hand in hand...
...Belgian. The policy must aim solely at placing us outside the quarrels of our neighbors. It corresponds to our national ideal. It can be maintained by a reasonable military and financial effort, and it would command the support of all the Belgians, who are inspired by an intense and basic desire for peace...
...charge are nature in experience and wisdom, their records worth examining. More important, however, is the philosophy behind the activity and their method of coping with their problems. A basic tenet of their theory is that a man must first sell himself to them. Only then can they introduce and describe their marketable product to the prospective employer. Every conceivable way of facilitating alumni employment is used. Personal conferences, the discovery of interests, the compilation of information, the arrangement of interviews between "scouts" and students, the inspection of various plants: these are but some of the more routine matters...
Masonite was not named for the benefit of the building trade but for the inventor of the basic processes-William Horatio Mason. A broad-shouldered, white-haired Virginia-born engineer who spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post...