Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clever boy, given to extremes in thought and dress, is overrated and that the immature but serious boy struggling honestly to express in unadorned English now ideas, and trying always to appraise them judiciously, is underrated for lack of appreciation of what the youth conceives to be the basic purpose of writing. The question in its last analysis, is one's choice between the shown shoddy road of ultra extreme but passing fashion and the genuine all-wool garment of conservative...
...history of his grandparents? The terms of the bequest imply all that. We doubt, however, whether these elements represent the ideals and culture of the United States as expressed by such Americans as Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln or Theodore Roosevelt. Certainly the Constitution of the United States is a basic factor of American culture, yet it offers the presidency of the United States to men who, according to the terms of Mr. Warren's bequest, would be disqualified as representatives of "the best ideals and traditions" of American culture...
Useless Sympathy, With such views current in the House of Commons, the future course of His Majesty's Government regarding Ethiopia seemed certain to take its bearings from basic factors which have not changed in the slightest because of the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare. These factors he ably set forth...
...terms which achieved this Sanctions breathing spell are subject to any amount of revision but of basic and lasting importance are formal pledges set forth in the opening sentences of Part One and Part Two of The Deal...
From Dr. Schuman, the Press obtained the "basic diet" which had taken 32 lb. off Rose in three months...