Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many holidays during my impressionable moppetry were bewildered into discouragement from a child's losing argument on the Christian influence of Girard College and the basic Christian intentions of Stephen Girard in connection therewith as prescribed in his unique will. I have fled from my tormentors of 1912; your accurate article will answer the tormentors...
...terms of the cost of living, he reviewed the record in France, Germany and the U. S. during the War and post-War inflation. If stock prices had risen as fast as the cost of living, Mr. Ayres's bold, black zigzags would have fluctuated close to the basic chart line 100. The U. S. index, however, dropped as low as 50 during the peak of post-War prices. The French index showed almost the same thing. German common stocks did even worse, the index dropping nearly to 10. When the mark lost all real value it stood...
...effects of the capitalist system. As long as capitalism lasts, war will constantly threaten. Whether students or any other group are for or against war makes little difference. Wars come irrespective of the wishes of those who must fight them. The basic cause of war today is the world-wide search for markets for the goods turned out by industry. He who would eliminate war must bend his energies to eliminating that which causes war. And so long as goods are produced for sale, there will be capitalists, who, whether they like it or not, must expand or lose...
...basic fault lies in the niggardly provision for but two assistants to examine over one hundred fifty men. This task in itself is overwhelming and naturally thankless, and its very enormity precludes any opportunity for personal attention, or the chance to spend either more or less time with certain students. With the outlook for an increased budget for next year extremely slim, the obvious solution is a return to the tried and tested system of hour examinations. These undoubtedly have their faults, but compared to the abject failure which the present system of "personal contact" has proven in History...
...flood water, the industry last week more than recovered all lost ground, operations rising to 64½% of capacity. Iron Age, amazed by the demand for steel for immediate use. particularly from the auto mobile industry and construction projects in flood areas, predicted still further improvement in the most basic of U. S. industries. In Washington Messrs. Grace & Irvin revealed that their respective companies were currently operating near the industry's average-notable because both Bethlehem and U. S. Steel have large stakes in heavy structural steels and rails, have long run far below the industry as a whole...