Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This basic problem is the old one of small-group efficiency versus adequate representation. The Society must remain representative of the student body so that it will not degenerate to a club of self-styled BMOC's, as has happened at other colleges; it must not be unwieldy...
Golden Bullets. In that struggle, money -i.e., private investment-is as basic as hard work. Since 1898 the U.S.-which was first indifferent and then embarrassed about the poor child on its doorstep-has spent over a billion dollars in or on Puerto Rico. Last year the Federal Government, in one way or another, spent $101 million in the island...
...basic attribute of Western sculpture, that look of motion kept reappearing throughout the Met's show. It was present in Tullio Lombardo's 15th Century Adam and in Jean Antoine Houdon's 18th Century masterpiece, The Bather. A 20th Century example was the lie de France, a nude female torso by the late great Frenchman Aristide Maillol, who had gone so far as to imitate even the damages to classical sculpture by leaving off head, arms arid feet...
Washington's undergraduate Management Club had spent months interviewing employers in the Seattle area, and the university employment service had collaborated in arranging the seminar. One basic conclusion about the local job market: for certain specialists, jobs will still be plentiful. Dieticians, nurses, teachers, metallurgical and ceramic engineers should have no trouble at all. Chemical and mechanical engineers will also be in fairly good demand, though some will have a better chance if they go East after graduation. Nonspecialists, however, have a different kind of problem...
...about what the C-plus man did, term after term in course after course, for this case to be thrown off as a fluke. Although these people are enrolled in the course at hand, and ordinarily have performed some token act of preparation for the examination, there are no basic differences between the stories they tell and the story of the student who got the C-plus. They, too, get grades completely out of proportion to their knowledge or understanding of a course's material. They, too, get away with "shooting the bull...