Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prizewinner Heffernan, attacking the last assignment, decided that the basic problem about an opera house is how to get out. His design, notably similar to Radio City Music Hall with its paraboloid acoustic ceiling, was so plentifully endowed with exits that any spectator could leave in any direction at any time...
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Acclaimed by the world as a great revolutionist of theoretical physics, his bold speculations, now become basic doctrine, will be remembered when mankind's present troubles are long forgotten...
Then the convention opened and Frank Lowden rose to contribute his keynote address. Said he: "The preservation of the basic principles of the Constitution: this is the supreme issue of the hour...
...Donham does not understand that though the basic differences between Hearst's and other papers may be small in number, they are immense in significance. For Mr. Hearst and others cannot seen to realize that the vital need of the modern world is tolerance towards all peoples and all creeds. For all his faith in democracy, Hearst will stop at nothing to suppress anything un-American. In one breath he excoriates the man who hints at foreign entanglements, and in another be conducts an anti-Japanese campaign that bids fair...
...just for the joy of giving. Now Federal agencies like NRA, AAA or TVA are lucky to get grudging crusts on Capitol Hill. Thus it was no great surprise when an ungenerous House Committee last week turned and snarled at TVA's requests for several amendments to its basic act. One amendment would increase TVA's right to issue bonds, guaranteed in principal and interest by the U. S., from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000. Another would enable it to get around Federal Judge Grubb of Birmingham, Ala. who had ruled that TVA's authorization...