Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announced by Dean Buck last Wednesday, the new field has been allotted a $2,000,000 endowment from the Gordon McKay Fund to train at the college level research engineers well grounded in basic sciences, in order to make up the deficiency resulting from...
...Belgium. As soon as the Germans vacated one end of a town, Belgians began repairing their roofs at the other. Under the energetic guidance of Socialist Premier van Acker, a basketmaker's son, they had gone on repairing, rebuilding. The dynamic, 52-year-old Premier personally directed the basic "battle of coal," lifted production from a piddling 23,000 tons daily at the beginning of 1945 to a thumping 80,000 tons daily at the end. Iron & steel, power output soared. Currency was cut to the level of goods available, prices were slashed, black markets broken...
Asch calls his albums "basic music" to distinguish them from popular swing or the Gene Autry-Bob Wills (TIME, Feb. 11) kind of folk music. Said he: "Ours get down to the musical roots. Very often a basic song like Buffalo Gals ["Can't you come out tonight?"] becomes a hit, but I'm not interested in individual hits. To me a catalogue of folk expression is the most important thing...
Klein's basic policies will remain unchanged, said new Boss Kuchai. Only the buying functions of Klein's and Grayson will be consolidated. Grayson will continue to sell medium-priced merchandise, Klein's will stick to selling cheap...
...basic rules of interplanetary travel have been fairly well worked out. If a rocket or spaceship zooms off at slightly better than seven miles a second (twelve times as fast as an antiaircraft shell) it will have the force to escape entirely from the earth's gravitational field. Best method is to shoot through the dense lower air rather slowly, to reduce air friction; then shift into high above the atmosphere...