Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rookie. At Fort Belvoir, Va., Private George Geographos, a basic trainee, refused to accept his paycheck, insisted he had done nothing to earn...
Among the films that the service has turned out are commencement pictures, a short on the synthesis of quinine, one on W.R.U.L., a University radio station that broadcasts to Europe, a basic English feature, and a movie on intramural sports, which was shown around the country to all the Harvard clubs, demonstrating to the members what else is done here in the way of athletics besides football. The service is presently working on a film for Dr. Carl W. Walter, of the Medical School, on the postoperative sterilization of an operating room...
From that day, Relativity was the basic law of the universe. Einstein's photons, too, grew into the head-splitting Quantum Mechanics, which teaches that all matter is nothing but waves, crossing and interacting! Little by little, both theories have worked their way into nearly all branches of science...
With labor and material costs rising and revenues dropping since V-J day, railroads have been struggling to keep their heads above water. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission threw them a lifesaver: a 6% increase in freight rates, effective July 1-except for certain basic commodities such as products of agriculture, slag, gravel, etc. on which the boost was only 3%. To make up for their lower rate of earnings, Eastern railroads were allowed a further increase of 5% on all but anthracite and bituminous coal, lignite and iron...
...basic plot is that old movie standby, the love triangle. In this case, the romancing does double duty as political allegory. In piling up her case against a wishy-washy U.S. foreign policy, Playwright Hellman has converted each of her characters into a sort of symbol...