Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, in their first free general election since Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, Germans will choose 400 representatives for the Bundestag (lower house) of the Deutsche Bundesrepublik, the long-awaited Federal Republic of Germany. Chief contestants for power: the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. Their platforms had one vital plank in common: sharp criticism of the Western occupation powers...
Much must be learned before the drug can be generally used. ACTH is one of at least six important hormones secreted by the pituitary, each of which acts as a master control regulating the flow of a series of other vital substances in the body. ACTH got its full name from the group it controls: the hormones of the cortex (outer casing) of the adrenals (the glands which bestride the kidneys). No less than 28 such slave hormones, including cortisone (see below), have been found in the adrenals. When their flow is stimulated, there may be harmful side effects...
...Every bullet, every item, has been planned because of a particular need for this somewhere. If you cut it, you will not achieve some vital purpose." So Secretary of State Dean Acheson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week in his precise and impressive manner...
...department of research. Its three great national laboratories (Brookhaven on Long Island, Argonne at Chicago, and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) are becoming major centers of scientific life. Smaller AEC laboratories are sprouting up all over the country. At present the program employs about 6,500 scientists and technicians. On the vital problem of personnel, the report, signed by Chairman David E. Lilienthal and his four fellow commissioners, commented significantly: "The morale situation has recovered from a very low point...
...Minister of Justice Alexej Cepicka blared that Beran had maintained "treacherous connections with foreign enemies" and plotted "treacherous anti-state riots." "Let no one doubt," the minister went on, "that today anyone who . . . tries in any way to carry out the Vatican's orders commits treason against the vital principles of his own state and people." Cepicka lists himself officially as a Catholic. He is a son-in-law of Communist Boss Klement Gottwald...