Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Section 2 A. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere in any way with the basic principal of the constitution which assures every citizen freedom of thought and speech and the right to advocate changes and improvements in both the state and federal constitutions...
...Committee of the Chairmen" refers to a group of men representing both Harvard and Yale, between whom was made the basic agreement which governs such cases. However, the Eligibility Rules state in another place that "final responsibility for the eligibility of individual members of athletic teams shall rest with the University concerned." It was for this reason that Bingham's Committee alone made the decision yesterday...
...Nobel Peace Prize for Soviet Foreign Commissar "Maxie" Litvinoff was urged last week by the Swedish association, Friends of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile Comrade Litvinoff's alert British-born wife, Ivy, won her three-year fight to get Dictator Stalin to order every Red Army soldier to learn "Basic English," a simplified vocabulary of 850 words in which it is supposed to be possible to express almost any thought. First English books to be read by Red Soldiers: Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels re-written in Basic...
...Theatre Players announce that they stand for "significant plays dealing with the problem of that basic section of the population--the workers." Their play "Stevedore," running highly worth seeing, and too few see it. With their limited resources the New Theatre Players do an excellent job. The casting is perfect. The play suffers, like most avowedly propagandist plays, from too much earnestness on the part of the playwrights (Paul Peters and George Sklar). It lacks any touch of relief from exciting, sometimes harrowing situations. The structural fault in its conception is obviously this tie scene after another. The acting...
Contrary to his previous plans Coach Dick Harlow decided yesterday that the Varsity needed one more day of work on fundamentals, passing, and kicking before staging another scrimmage. Consequently yesterday's session was spent in brushing up on these basic departments and action was postponed until this afternoon...