Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Basic Stipulations...
Criticisms gathered by William L. Bruce '46's investigators in the first weeks of operation centered about lack of variety in menus and "unappetizing" preparation. Undergraduates have alleged that with no boost in costs, meals could be made more appealing by varying salads, dressings, vegetables, and the basic menus themselves...
...conservative, scholarly Dr. James Frederic Dewhurst, 52, ex-professor and onetime head of economic research for the Department of Commerce. The report's most important conclusion is that the U.S., for the first time, is close to having the tools, workers and know-how to nil the basic needs of its population. This hopeful prospect is not a prediction. It is a statistical projection based on normal long-term trends of U.S. growth-in population, wealth, consumption, demand, spending, etc., and the assumption that the U.S. will not be plunged into a catastrophic depression...
...usual, readers must grant Author White (The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Mas ham's Repose) a basic, whimsical conceit. This time the Archangel Michael slithers down the chimney of an Irish farm where Mr. White is boarding, warns of an imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County...
...second level, purely practical problems of music criticism were discussed. Miss Olga Samaroff, pianist, educator, and former music critic of the New York Post, hit the most basic of these when she pointed out the importance of critics in making or breaking artists...