Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comparing the methods of today's and yesterday's researcher, he said that "it is our contention that the way the seventeenth century scientist would grope for what we now consider the basic law is the same way the scientist works today...
...manufacturer and a nominal Republican myself, and I realize that they want to lower the debt by cutting expenditures. I know only too well what stupidity and inefficiency run rampant in some government bureaus, but why doesn't the Republican majority launch a constructive program to correct this basic cause of expensive government, instead of criticizing the sound policies of their opponents...
...home so that it can be sold abroad. Again & again, Sir Stafford warned industry's owners and managers that if they do not do what they are told, the Government will make them do it. British workers must stop slacking on the job. If workers are lacking in basic industry, labor conscription, though the Labor Government shrinks from the thought, will have to come...
...scientist-darling of Communist theologians is Soviet Academician Trofim Denisovich Lysenko. Lysenko's basic idea seems to be that living forms (like nations) need to be shaken up by a kind of genetic revolution. Thus shaken, a tomato or wheat plant is capable of very rapid development. In proving this thesis, Lysenko is short on controlled experimentation and long on thundering Marxist phrases like "The Liquidation of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). Many non-Communist geneticists consider him a politically motivated fraud...
...Force trainees will receive the same basic instruction as Ground Force students for the first two years, but their Junior year will find hem diverted to subjects indigneous to the Air Corps. More vigorous specialization will take place in the Senior year. On graduation men in this program will be commissioned reserve second lieutenants in he Air Force...