Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most U. S. cities, last year was better than 1933. In a survey of 106 municipalities published last week by Manhattan's banking house of Lehman Brothers all but 24 reported an increase in tax collections, basic factor in all municipal finance. Nearly one-half the cities reporting gains, however, attributed the improvement in some degree to Home Owners Loan Corp., which doles out cash for back taxes in addition to refunding mortgages. Despite frequent crises over piffling sums for relief, New York City's credit is now better than at any time in the past four years...
...Coolidge's criticism, that can be dismissed because of its basic assumption, that President Conant will carry his tendencies to their logical (?) and absurd conclusions. Because the President is thinking of the "improvement of the Harvard Faculty and the advancement of knowledge," Mr. Coolidge assumes that he will carry on these reforms to the utter neglect of the Harvard undergraduate. That is having very little faith in the intelligence of President Conant...
...basic requirements for a commuter center are "a clean, light, spacious dining room," a "space for . . . . common rooms," and "locker or storage space...
Most of the men questioned admitted that they had derived some benefit from their elementary language courses, but said that such primary work had interfered with more important studies to an extent which showed that a modern university is no place for such purely basic material. It was suggested that the elementary rule should be met before admission to College. Both German A and French 2, the most popular of such courses, were severely criticized in the replies...
...became known that His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad, ''Richest Man In The World," now thinks he was "coerced" into approving Federation. Last week at New Delhi the trained seals of the Legislative Assembly pained Viceregal Seal-master Willingdon by voting 74 to 58 that the basic principle of All-India Federation is "fundamentally bad and totally unacceptable to the people of British India...