Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parity farm prices. "But business does look with considerable question upon the basic principle of paying people for what they do not do or of destroying crops while people starve...
...growing elasticity in the theory of distribution and concentration has already made time economies without affecting its basic value. The tutorial system, providing for more intensive and thorough work teaches the intelligent man the same things more rapidly. The policy of placing qualified Freshmen in advanced courses is cutting out unnecessary review. All these factors contribute towards teaching men the same amount, or even more, in a shorter period of time than it took a century ago. Yet Harvard is greedy. She insists on keeping her sons for four years when she has learned how to give them an education...
...true that the Houses possess minor differences in atmosphere rather than basic variations in individuality. Yet a man will feel more satisfied with his choice if he possesses first hand evidence of this fact. Danger from proselyting will be inconsequential as long as the cross-section spirit pervades University Hall. Difficulties from administration will be at a minimum as long as inter-House slips are utilized...
...Shelf was rock laid down by sedimentation in the Cretaceous era, 70,000,000 to 100,000,000 years ago. With no knowledge of how deep this layer was, it was thought that it thinned out eastward, exposing at or near the edge of the Shelf the basic granite foundation of the North American continent, some 1,000,000,000 years old. Dr. Ewing's twitchy seismograph needles now told him how thick the sedimentary layer was. Near the shore the thickness was 500 ft. But as he moved eastward, the layer, instead of dwindling as he expected...
Professor Sprague, speaking before the Foreign Policy Association at the Copley-Plaza on Saturday afternoon, suggested that "a broadening of the embargo to basic war supplies" by Congress in its next session is highly desireable...