Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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J.B.S. Haldane, Britain's leading geneticist and a staunch Communist, has been beset for some time now by a problem of basic loyalties. Should he follow the Moscow-approved genetics line of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms)? Or should he follow the Morgan-Mendelian theory (that the genes in the reproductive cells control heredity), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., but formally denounced by Soviet officialdom as unscientific and un-Marxist...
...these changes were made, McCabe thought that business could step up expansion. Said he: "I am a confirmed optimist regarding the future of America. I firmly believe that the basic characteristics of our economy are expansion and growth. Economic expansion today presents a strikingly different challenge from that of a hundred years ago. Then, the frontier development was the opening up of our great Western resources. The geographic frontier is gone, but we still have a frontier of development. That frontier is technology...
...order the council to seat him. Then he set about preparing his case for a hearing late this month. The court will be asked to decide whether the Maryland code is depriving Stanford of his constitutional rights under Amendment 14, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which protects basic civil rights of U.S. citizens from abridgment by any state...
...Wings. AEC is deep in medical research. In preparation for the coming atomic age, it is studying the effect of radiation on man and other living organisms. This involves basic work on body cells and their chemistry, for radiation kills cells by causing subtle chemical changes inside them. At Argonne, AEC scientists are irradiating small bats and examining their tissue-thin wings under high-power microscopes, to study the effects of radiation on blood and its delicate corpuscles...
Olds also boxed himself in worse than the situation warranted, by neglecting to point out one basic reason why the 1949 figures looked so much better than 1948's -because the steel industry had been forced to curtail production for six weeks in the spring of 1948 while John L. Lewis' coal strike was on. Instead, Olds contented himself with asserting that Big Steel's ability to pay had nothing to do with the case. Said he: "There is no justification at this time for a fourth round . . . I do not believe it would be good...