Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exactly 2:02 o'clock one afternoon last week-less than ten hours before the deadline-word reached the steelworkers' Pittsburgh headquarters: Big Steel had capitulated. The creeping threat of a shutdown in the nation's most basic industry was suddenly lifted. His face lined with the strain of waiting, 63-year-old President Phil Murray called in the newsmen: "We are delighted to be able to say that the strike has been averted...
...festival, which came to an end this week, was a cultural rather than a popular or financial success. Hutchins had set the spiritual tone of the gathering: "The major concern of thoughtful citizens today is the lack of serious consideration for the application ... of the basic human standards best represented in the humanities-philosophy, religion, ethics-and the social sciences...
Professor Williams and his associate, Paul Charles Zamecnik, Harvard associate in medicine, have a serious purpose. They are trying to study the structure of protein, the basic substance of living creatures. Fibroin, the principal constituent of silk, is a protein. Scientists know that it is made of certain amino acid molecules linked together in chains. What they do not know is how the chains are put together. The plan is to find out how the silkworms do it. Professor Williams is injecting mature worms with various amino acids which are made radioactive by carbon 14. After a while the worms...
...economy no longer depends directly on its basic industries-oil, oranges, motion pictures and aircraft. It lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester, makes more furniture than Grand Rapids, assembles more automobiles than any other city but Detroit, makes more tires than any other city but Akron. It is a garment center (bathing suits, slacks, sports togs) second only to New York. It makes steel in its backyard. Its port handles more tonnage than San Francisco...
Happy in the U.S., Szent-Gyorgyi has taken out first papers for naturalization. He plans to keep on looking for the final answer to the action of muscle, "the most wonderful material to analyze the basic principles of life...