Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Astronomy major must be a composite chemist-physicist-mathematician. Since he is required to get a basic knowledge of physics and mathematics in, addition to Astronomy, the more he knows about these subjects before he starts in, the better...
...department of bio-chemical sciences offers a convenient means of satisfying both requirements for a degree and the basic requisites for admission to medical school at one stroke, but the man who is uncertain about a medical career runs the danger of finding himself as a senior able to carry on an enlightened conversation in most of the branches of the physical and biological sciences without possessing enough specialized training to put his knowledge to work without further preparation...
...eighteen leading trading nations, Russia excepted, meet at Geneva to initiate a revival of world trade as a basis for lasting peace and prosperity, the frank, business-like atmosphere suggests that many of the very basic cleavages in attitudes may be reconciled. While the conferences deal with both a long-range issue (a charter for the proposed International Trade Organization) and a more immediate problem (the writing of new multi-lateral trade agreements), the same conflicting philosophics hamper both tasks. Fortunately America, upon whom the success of the sessions and the ultimate fortunes of the ITO and world trade rests...
...scores of cycles in the economy (each industry has its own), Dewey & Dakin have decided that four cycles, or rhythms, are basic. The four are: the 54-year, the 18⅓-year, the 9-year and the 41-month rhythm...
...important fact about cycles, say Dewey & Dakin, is that world wars, depressions and other economic cataclysms do not seem to change the rhythms. They may distort them, i.e., a cycle may go higher or lower, but its basic length is not changed...