Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British shipping, to back up her submarine attacks on Britain's food supply. But Allied and neutral apprehensions inclined toward the explanation denied by Dr. Goebbels. From near Aachen the great German juggernaut started rolling 25 years ago. Transit of the Lowlands has always been the basic principle of German war to the west. Nature made it so long before the Maginot Line was built...
...ironical that Hicks should quit," the editorial says, "at a time when the basic policies of the magazine are being corroborated by world events." That he should not be among the number of Communist "who have thoroughly understood the ideas which they espoused" is regrettable...
...Martin and Douglas are working on 315 bombers for France, Lockheed has turned out about 6.5% of its 250-ship bomber order for Britain, and only North American had nearly completed its foreign orders (basic trainers and combat ships for France and England...
...Systematic investigation of matter and energy without regard to immediate prac tical ends has turned out to be the most direct road to social riches." This is the basic thesis of Atoms In Action* published this week by George Russell Harrison, California-born professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "In the long run," says he, "digging for truth has always proved not only more interesting, but more profitable, than digging for gold. If urged on by the love of digging, one digs deeper than if searching for some particular nugget. Practicality is inevitably shortsighted, and is self-handicapped...
...asked, "How many words do you know?" most educated adults will grossly underestimate their own vocabularies. Dr. Robert H. Seashore, Northwestern University, found (by judicious sampling) that average college students could recognize 61,000 basic and 96,000 derivative terms in an unabridged dictionary, a total of 157,000 words; bright students could recognize 190,000. Dr. Seashore pointed out that in the days of Shakespeare (whose working vocabulary has been given by scholars as 15,000 words) the English language was much smaller than...