Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee will operate in an interim capacity until a full meeting of the trustees is held sometime within the next two or three months, to pick a permanent board. In the meantime, Watt's group has been charged with three basic duties...
...counseled many Japanese generals; now, as "Jiko-san" (Divine Light), she got financial support from Japanese aristocrats and militarists, averaged $16,000 a month in contributions. Over her temple in Kanazawa, Jiko-san flew the red "meatball" flag of Imperial Japan; to her followers she restated the basic State Shinto principles of hakko ichi-u-the whole world under Japan's Emperor. Jiko-san had included General Douglas MacArthur and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in her cabinet of lesser deities...
...committee will operate in an interim capacity until a full meeting of the trustees is held sometime within the next two or three months, to pick a permanent board. In the meantime, Watt's group has been charged with three basic duties...
...problem, you see, is basically his problem, not ours. We cannot solve it for him. We can contribute only by a long-term policy of firmness, patience and understanding, designed to keep the Russians confronted with superior strength at every juncture where they might otherwise be inclined to encroach upon the vital interests of a stable and peaceful world; but we should do this in so friendly and unprovocative a manner that its basic purposes will not be subject to misinterpretation...
...Harvard's basic tuition: $400; Princeton...