Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggest Justice Robert Jackson? In his speech at the opening of the Nürnberg trials he presented more clearly and forcefully than any other living person, the basic American concept that man must defend his fellow man against injustices...
There are less gaudy symbols of inflation: in tiny stores and markets, the price of beans, rice and sugar creeps up, day by day. (Basic food costs have gone up 441% since...
...Mclntosh is a youthful woman with bobbed, reddish-gold hair and a set of firm opinions. A basic one: it is "tragic" that so many educated women "settle down into domesticity and never raise a peep again." Mrs. Mclntosh speaks on this subject with impressive authority. Educated at Bryn Mawr, Johns Hopkins and Cambridge, she began to teach in 1922, married ten years later. Now the mother of five children, she has done an unruffled job of juggling career and family...
...dean-elect thinks colleges should put more accent on the humanities, thus give their students a basic philosophy for living-"something to hold on to." She rates this higher than vocational training, but expects to campaign for one vocation: teaching. Says she: "The colleges of today have a big job, to restore teaching as a major career for women. The best students see the segregation, isolation and exploitation connected with the profession, and they just won't do it any more...
...takes only 400 words of Basic English to run a battleship. With 850 words you can run the planet," mused Professor I. A. Richards, literary critie, lecturer in Humanities 1a, and one of Harvard's hardest-hitting opponents of scholarship in-a-vacuum. "Do you know that of the 22 hundred million people in the world, 15 hundred million don't read at all, or read a script which doesn't use an alphabet?" he went on, in a tone of bitterness and shock which made it plain that his fight against illiteracy and incomplete communication is a root fact...