Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic differences in speed are heightened by RCA's adopting its record to a new, rapid three-second changer. The adaptation requires a one and a half inch spindle hole, making it impossible for both the new RCA and Columbia records to be played on the same turntable. RCA has given up the idea of one symphony on one record, reduced the size of the record to seven inches, and come up with the startling result that its new record holds exactly the same amount of music as an old 12 incher. This leaves the entire advantage of the record...
...small sections; the Department's allocations for speech limit the course to 75. As many students had to be turned away from the course last fall as were allowed to take it. Even if University officials do not consider speech an important subject, they must at least recognize its basic value to the extent of giving all those who want this instruction the chance to get it. This means an extension in the facilities of English...
...speech is that, like English composition, those who need it most usually do not take it on their own initiative. It would be well to consider instituting a test for incoming freshmen not only to discover speech defects and any marked difficulties in expression, but to aim for a basic level of self-expression...
Since all departments of the University use the College Library to some extent, President Conant added, half of the basic operating costs of the library will be paid out of the general funds of the University...
Concern over the nation's security threatens to put "our basic freedom, freedom to thought, into a strait jacket," Professor Kirtley F. Mather told a Ford Hall Forum audience last night at Jordan Hall. Mather's talk was entitled "The Threat to Freedom in the United States...