Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Para, Brazil, was Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, botany curator of Chicago's Field Museum. Although the expedition had the earmarks of a happy combination of pleasure and publicity, Johnson's President Johnson announced that he would search for new growths of carnauba palm, whose leaves supply the basic substance of high-grade wax and polish...
...harassment of citizens in violation of the supreme law of the land. It is hard to answer the question satisfactorily because in so far as the oath refers to support of the federal and state constitutions, I find it to be absolutely without meaning. Section 2a expressly recognizes 'The basic principle of the constitution which assures every citizen, etc. the right to advocate changes . . . in both the state and federal constitutions.' Obviously, one may thus teach that the Electoral College, for instance, is a silly anachronism. It is thus not necessary to support the constitutions in a partisan sense...
...expected thunderbolt did not strike last Saturday. But there were certain rumblings which sounded very much like distant thunder. Probably some time will be required for perfecting but it certainly seems that Coach Harlow is entitled to a basic patent on his machine. At any rate, what he has done in his three short weeks calls for congratulations and hope. But at the first game of the season, the attitude of the spectators was so artistically phlegmatic that it is impossible to become vitriolic in denouncing it. As a dramatic achievement the unbroken calm of the grandstands surpasses anything...
...With his assistant and fellow-Pnncetonian. Charles Woodruff Vost, a 28-year-old State Department cub, he it was who drafted the list of wartime contraband which President Roosevelt charged him with controlling. Mortars, machine guns and methyldichlorarsine are obvious munitions of war. But what about such equally useful, basic implements of war as steel, copper, cotton? In case of hostilities, would an embargo be placed on them, too? Washington wiseacres thought not.* Ever since Benito Mussolini began his dangerous animal act featuring the terrified Lion of Judah and the terrifying Lion of Britain, U. S. cotton and copper producers...
...rest. While they loafed and slept, representatives of operators and miners who had been haggling in Washington since mid-February came to terms in four days. Contracts were signed to begin this week, run until April 1, 1937. Day-rate workers, including two-thirds of all miners, got their basic pay upped from $5 to $5.50 per day. Adding on similar increases for piece-workers, operators figured their labor bill had been raised 15? per ton, $90,000,000 per year. Virginia, Tennessee and some Kentucky operators held out because of disagreement over wage differentials, but their 23,000 miners...