Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Style. No one saw any basic changes. The New Look was still the style. The only notable trend was an extravagant use of material (as much as 40 yards of cloth in one dress alone) which marked the collections of such New Look creators as Christian Dior...
Their documentary proved nothing new. It probably cured no addicts of the Communist drug pipe.* But in turning the spotlight of fact into dark corners of methods and basic philosophy, it achieved a notable success...
Ghosts Know. The speed of sound! That magic and frightening quantity dominates the dreams of high-speed plane designers. It is no mere landmark, no mere handy figure for public relations officers. It is basic: the speed with which a "compression wave" (whether a faint whisper or the crushing shock wave of an atomic explosion) moves through air. The actual speed varies considerably with the air's temperature (the colder the slower). To eliminate this variability from their figuring, scientists have given the speed of sound a special name. In aerodynamics, the speed of sound in any air under...
Quiet, dark-haired Jim Pursell, a onetime relay runner at U.S.C., was too wise to monkey with Patton's basic style of running. After one look at him, he decided that what the kid needed most was time to develop. Pursell kept him on the "B" squad as long as he dared (until Mel ran a 10.2 against Manual Arts High one day). Then the coach began to rub OR some polish...
...converts to his "Numbered Words," a code language that would probably have more appeal for mathematicians than for poets or orators. Whether it would achieve any more practical success than several thousand other international languages, hopefully devised by linguists and peace zealots ever since Babel (among them: Esperanto, Basic English, Volapiik, Novial, Ido, Ro, Nulango), was another story...