Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be 69 this month ?M. Poincare knew that there was nothing unwonted, nothing crucial about an inflammation of the gland he was about to lose. Not strictly speaking an organ of sex, as ignorants suppose, the prostate, nestling just beneath the bladder, supplies certain useful but not vital secretions, is observed to be peculiarly liable to deterioration in old men, to communicable infection in young. Last week, yielding only to the onslaught of age, M. Poincarè stepped briskly from his apartment, motored to a clinic, and next morning with firm step walked to the operating table on which...
Local newspapers (including the Los Angeles Times and Examiner), long foes of labor unionism, continued to suppress news. Day after day visiting newsmen were astonished to see the big vital story twisted and killed...
...General Director of the North German Lloyd is a very tiny Prussian (he stands scarce four feet ten) yet full proportioned, hard, compact. A dynamo of vital energy, he has built up for the North German Lloyd a whole new post-Versailles fleet of 700,000 tons. A stickler for short cuts, he insists on being called only "STIMMING." Even the German Who's Who does not seem to know that the great little Prussian's parents used to refer to him as "Karl." Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General...
...Just prior to embarking on his strenuous vacation, President Kemal had put finishing touches to the new Turkish tariff. Last week U. S. Commercial Attache Julian E. Gillespie cabled details vital to U. S. exporters...
...Bear and Chinese Dragon over the Manchurian prize grew increasingly furious until the two Great Powers clawed warily at each other, drew a few spurts of soldier blood. Such was the smoke screen of lies set up by both antagonists that alert observers could set down only a few vital, verifiable developments...