Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What makes Stalin great," said the Tsar, "is that he understands how to adapt revolutionary tactics to the whirling spirals of history as it emerges onto new planes. He has discarded the classical type of proletarian revolution. Nevertheless, he is carrying through basic social revolutions in Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Poland. Furthermore, we Marxists be lieve that in the years of peace Britain and the U.S. will fall apart, due, as we Marxists say, to the inability of capitalism to solve its basic contradiction - that is, its inability to provide continuous work for the masses so that they...
...longest step in aeronautical development since Orville Wright first flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 44 years ago. But the Air Force's pride of achievement was dulled by the fact that it had not succeeded in guarding the secret of basic aerodynamic design which had opened up the supersonic speed zone. The Air Force' could and did keep secret the speeds which had been attained in its epoch-making flight...
Whitehead hated and feared the "bifurcation of nature" by which many philosophers separated their thought from the physical world; and his realization of their basic fallacy is all the more remarkable in a man who was embued with the training of mathematics and physical science. His early works in algebra and his great "Principia Mathematica," both of which brought combination and simplification to logic and mathematics, were the beginnings of his campaign, which reached fruition in 1929 with the publication of "Process and Reality," where he set forth a dynamic philosophy of the world which boldly embraced physical science...
...scarcely less critical step. "If Europe fails to recover, the peoples of these countries might be driven to the philosophy of despair-the philosophy which contends that their basic wants can be met only by the surrender of their basic rights to totalitarian control. Such a turn of events would constitute a shattering blow to peace and stability in the world. It might well compel us to modify our own economic system and to forgo, for the sake of our own security, the enjoyment of many of our freedoms and privileges...
...time the 5,145 prizes were awarded last week, G.M. felt that it had got its money's worth. The contest had proved a smart publicity stunt. It had also given G.M. a closer appreciation than ever before of two basic emotions of good factory workers: a strong pride in their work, a deep love of precision machines. By giving those feelings a stronger, more individualistic outlet, G.M. felt, it could take some of the curse of monotony out of mass production...