Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Game of Darts. UNO had shown the Russians that the Security Council could not be used for petty tactical maneuvers. It had not, of course, really reconciled the basic forces in conflict between Great Britain and Russia; the forces were irreconcilable. It was UNO's job to deflect and cushion such forces, prevent them from colliding and exploding into World War III. The London meeting made it plain that the nations, pressed from below by war-sick peoples, had accepted UNO as the place of settlement-at least for the present...
...Three to Make Ready" appears to have a young, spirited cast and management as yet unjaded by the box-office. With the show's basic ingredients--good music, dancing, and production--the troupe, sparked by Mr. Bolger's whimsical mimicry and Jane Deerings delicate dancing, can be counted on to smooth out something that at present can be entirely enjoyable only after a few drinks...
Therefore, said Justice Rand, all 9,500 Ford employes would have to pay the basic union dues of $1 a month, whether they belonged or not. The company would have to collect the money by checkoff and turn it over to the union...
...hours they settled what they had argued back & forth for nine weeks. The company agreed to pay an increase of 18? an hour (15.1%) in the basic wage rate of 100,000 employes; the .union agreed to give Ford the company security it had demanded, a guarantee against work stoppages and strikes...
Harvard's Astronomer Fred L. Whipple thought Diana might provide a test of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. According to Einstein, the velocity of light is constant, which makes it the basic measuring stick in the universe. If light's velocity were proved to be variable, as some suspect, science's present conceptions of the universe would have to be scrapped. Since radio waves travel at the same speed as light, and the distance from the earth to the moon can be figured closely by triangulation, measuring the time it takes for a radar echo...