Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Physics was different. "I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else." It was only much later, after years of independent scientific work, that he realized "that the approach to a more profound knowledge of the basic principles of physics is tied up with the most precise mathematical methods...
...circus, ain't it?" grinned Umpire Jocko Conlan as he looked over the Brooklyn Dodgers' training camp at Vero Beach, Fla. Some observers disagreed: it reminded them more of Willow Run or an Army basic training center. Whatever the word for Vero Beach, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey, the foxy grandpa of baseball, had brought mass production to spring baseball training...
Norman Thomas, perennial Socialist Party presidential candidate, asked for the "nation's economic Salvation' through scientific government control of basic industries such as steel and transportation. In advocating this he contradicted the arguments of both his opponents at the Law School Forum in Rindge Tech last night on the subject of governmental regulation of economy...
...Education should be a process of developing the individual's capacities rather than bringing him up to the standards of a particular school," he said. "Few, if any, artists attain success by studying basic principles...
...Joint Committee on the Economic Report, in its annual report, predicted another boom year, and thought it "premature to speak of 'recession' and absurd to speak of 'depression' when all the basic industries are continuing to produce at capacity." Not all businessmen were as optimistic. In the economic crosscurrents, no one was certain how great the shakeout in prices and jobs might be. But the next two months, usually marked by a spring pickup, would tell the tale. Businessmen would then know how much of the slide had been seasonal-and how much a permanent drop...