Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. An able, interesting historical novel of the development of middle America in its crucial years, well written, easy to read and packed with memories of a now as wholly departed as that of the Vikings. Natural, sincere fiction never doughy or pretentious? lacking only in that chancy quality of genius without which no novel, however able,, lives longer than its own time. But for all that a good, an entertaining, a very American book...
...been proved whether the reproductive cells of the sex glands, or the interstitial cells between them are the source of the hormones which determine the sex characteristics. This is a crucial question as between the Steinach and Voronoff methods...
...crucial business development during early summer is the prospective value of American crops. The July forecast issued by the Department of Agriculture covering the wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and other standard crops is encouraging. Despite the late winter, large crops are anticipated. The prospective value of the twelve principal American agricultural products, on the basis of farm prices on July 1, 1923, will be $7,829,912,800, as compared with $6,768,208,000 for the same crops in 1922. This gain of over a billion dollars in value this year is, however, conditioned by coming weather conditions...
Joseph Vincent Fuller '14: Bismarck's Diplomacy at its Zenith. Based on the latest German official publications, this study covers the years 1886 and 1887, a crucial period in modern European history...
...victory came to the latter through its ability to make and use to their full purpose the few opportunities which arose. Time and again the Yale team commenced its smashing running offensive when yet deep in its own territory, and just so often the advance stopped at the crucial moment partly through the stiffened Crimson defence and partly through the sheer fatigue of the powerful Blue backs. The long advances told on the Eli eleven and it lacked the final punch when that punch became essential...