Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ellison's basic premise was simple: writers, photographers, artists and cartoonists did not get their rightful share of profits from American magazines. The way he figured it, the most contributors could hope for was 10% of any magazine profits. He thought they should get a third. He polled prominent professionals, asked: Are there 300 creative artists who will gamble about $1,000 apiece for a magazine they can call their...
Newton's Simple World. For 200 years before Einstein, physicists had faithfully followed a set of basic laws published by the great Sir Isaac Newton in 1687. Their faithfulness had paid off. Sir Isaac led them to many triumphs and promised them many more...
Upon these basic rules (and others closely related), physicists built an imposing structure of knowledge. They predicted the motions of the earth, the moon, the planets. They derived a maze of useful mechanical sub-laws. They explained the behavior of gases, and discovered the nature of heat. Newton's laws did not account for everything, but the physicists felt that this was due to their own ignorance. Eventually, they were sure, all phenomena could be explained in Newton's terms...
Intolerable Situation. Since mid-May, when the first Paris meeting failed, no progress had been made by the chancelleries or by the deputies of the foreign ministers on the basic questions: 1) what type of regime to give Germany; 2) whether or not to internationalize the steel-producing Ruhr; 3) how to solve Yugoslavia's claims to Trieste; 4) on what to base peace treaties with Italy and the other former Axis satellites...
...lumber dealers than anybody else. Some of his plywood profits, about $200,000 last year, were plowed back into Home-Ola. But his real ace in the hole is the interest he owns in two plywood companies. While shortages are squeezing other prefabricators, Home-Ola has all the basic material it needs...