Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only for a nation with coal in sufficient abundance to permit the diversion of millions of tons annually from furnaces to carburetors. To supply France with synthetic gasoline by the Audibert process would require three or four million tons of coal per annum, All this would have to be imported as France has not enough coal as it is. In terms of coldest economy, the logical way for France to deal with her able son's discovery seemed to be to divulge it to one of the biggest coal-producing nations-the U. S., China, Germany-thus drive down...
...most such meetings, those who attended did so to orient themselves anew to the national aspects of their work. No item of new import was brought forward. Dr. Bundeson declared that all health education material intended for public consumption should be phrased in words of one syllable because the mental age of the public is twelve years...
...convention made no decisions of far-reaching import. The members, most of them in their 30's, many of them sober, listening to the convention speeches at the Chateau Frontenac, heard...
...editorial competition will consist largely of writing editorials every evening on topics of timely interest. College affairs will naturally predominate, but events of national and international import may also find reflection in the columns of the CRIMSON...
...Estrada fiasco in California, suppressed before it had taken life, is of greater import than is generally believed. It is folly to believe that Estrada planned to go into Mexico and lead a revolt with only the pitiful little army that was halted in California. He must have had support awaiting him in Mexico. That support is still there. Whether it will pick up the fight and carry on without Estrada is not known. The developments of the next few weeks should be interesting...