Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Blanshard told Mr. Cohen of the Prudential Committee's decision and of the basic charge...
...tricks to let his horses settle down and get a bellyful of grass as soon as they come back from a morning's gallop. He feels that it helps horses get the idea that work and play are practically the same thing. Such basic ideas, plus patience and instinctive horse sense, have made him famous wherever horses are raced...
...adliores so closely for an all excluding dogma, Communism or any other, that his instruction cannot be honest is incompetent and should not teach. It is on this definition of competence, and not of party allegiance, that a man's right to teach must rest. It is a basic American concept that individuals cannot be categorized, that they must be judged on personal performance and merit. This applies to teachers as it does to all others...
...Champion" loses the acid of Lardner's prose, although length is probably as much at fault as anything. It also indulges in a handful of coincidences and cliches that weaken an otherwise tight structure. Perhaps the most difficult problem facing a critic of this movie is its basic black-and-white. journalistic character: you can't get involved because the hero doesn't draw sympathy. Director Mark Robson has shaded the film impersonally and perfectly. It is a tribute to his direction that the one strong emotion the audience feels is the desire to haul Midge Kelly...
...basic weapon for air combat, thinks McNarney, will be the "air-to-air" rocket. It will not have to be aimed very accurately, for it will "home" on its target (probably attracted by radar-wave reflections), chase after it at supersonic speed, and explode by a proximity fuse when it gets within killing range. Such rockets presumably will be used by bombers for defense as well as by fighters for attack. Their development into "operational missiles," says McNarney, will not take long...