Word: basic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diminish. Today, students and head-masters seem to have a hazy idea that higher educational institutions are "loosening up" and "getting progressive." They seem to be suffering under some delusion based on the abolition of November grades and attendance and on that assumption are neglecting the study of the basic cultural and disciplinary subjects...
...meet present price levels. Western and Southern roads have voluntarily dropped the notorious 50% surcharge on Pullman space which many a passenger wrongly held against the Pullman Co. instead of the railroads. Eastern roads with heavier passenger traffic have neither dropped the surcharge nor reduced the basic fare...
...book is a collection of the author's important writings and addresses on education between the years 1887 and 1934. The volume forms a running commentary on educational history, and is significant in its revelation of the basic principles underlying Dr. Lowell's long and brilliant administration...
...President Roosevelt wrote a letter to Housing Administrator Moffett with strict injunctions that the rate of interest on mortgages issued under the Housing Act was to be 5% flat plus ½% or 1% for insurance, plus, in some cases, ½% for service charges. Basic rate for refinancing cases is to be 5½%. He declared that rates of 8% to 12% demanded on mortgages in the past were "exorbitant." ¶ Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, dropped in at the White House. As he emerged he intimated that the American Legion, which fortnight ago demanded immediate cash prepayment...
Thirdly, the name Republican and Democrat proves itself to be nothing more than a tag. Neither the winning nor the dying group stand for their basic principles any longer with the result that there will probably be a realignment of parties, even if under the same name. Internal dissension in Democratic ranks should gradually make way for a new division such as conservatives and liberals. Fourthly and most important is the realization that the New Deal will proceed to its logical conclusion, with reactionary and Tory Republicans unable to impede its course...