Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next step was selection of committees: social welfare, which helps needy boys get jobs, clothing, better housing, sports, theater, etc. Members of these committees are now drawing up the club constitution. Its basic principles: the four freedoms...
Other clay figures showed animals mounted on wheels. This discovery thrilled archeologists. They had thought that the wheel, basic device of mechanical civilization, was unknown in the New World. But the La Ventas had wheels some 2,000 years ago, or had at least seen representations of them. How they learned about wheels, and why their knowledge died with them, remains a fascinating mystery...
...figuring how a "hole" would behave if one should appear in a field of (negative) electrons. The hole, he decided, would act like a positive electron. Though no such particle had ever been found, colleagues began to look. Sure enough, they found the holes, as tangible as anything in basic physics, and named them "positrons...
With agreement on this basic principle, it was not impossible to work out a program. We did not shy away from an attempt to define the students interest in the world outside the ivory tower. In fact, resolutions which we adopted were quite prominent in Prague, whole sections being incorporated into the final report of the Congress...
...exchange, a commission to work on the rehabilitation of devastated universities, an international student newspaper and journal to facilitate exchange of ideas and information. Other proposals, too numerous to list, were drafted during those wearisome twelve hour sessions in New York. When the week was up, we had the basic frame work of a program which was to prove invaluable when we arrived in Prague...