Word: basic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apart from the fact that Inspector Gentry had ample time to secure a search warrant in the hours between his two visits to the house, noted Justice Douglas, a basic right was denied Citizen Frank. "One invasion of privacy by an official of Government can be as oppressive as another. Health inspections are important. But they are hardly more important than the search for narcotics peddlers, rapists, kidnapers, murderers and other criminal elements"-all covered, except in emergency cases, by search-warrant procedure...
...resplendent red handlebar mustache and an oilcloth blackboard. After a ten-hour day of shoveling gravel and sand to keep the railroad track from sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become a pediatrician and won wide fame as an expert on the horticulture of babies. "They thought I was a spy for the Canadian Pacific...
Open Mind. Much of the discussion concerned the basic question of what role religion should play in tax-supported schools. Nobody was entirely satisfied with religious "lessons" by secular teachers. Rabbi Gordis decried handing over the work of church and home to public schools, which might develop a "religion-by-rote." Agnostic Lekachman agreed: "I consider religion to be much too important in human history to see it reduced to a patriotic exercise in the classroom...
There was one index on the downgrade. Happily, it was for consumer food prices. Dun & Bradstreet's shopping basket of 31 basic foods (one pound of each) dropped to $6.13 wholesale, off 2? for the week and 44? below last year's recession level...
...Irving Pratt '26, General Chairman of the drive, recently stressed that the June goal of $82.5 million is "the minimum--the basic sum needed to strengthen the College. All non-essentials were eliminated before the Program was ever announced," he asserted...