Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most crucial test of the Chamberlain policy will come this week when the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax go to Rome. They will stop over for a two-hour tea in Paris, where French Premier Edouard Daladier is expected to warn Mr. Chamberlain not to start appeasing Dictator Benito Mussolini with French territory. Mr. Chamberlain's dilemma at Rome will be that he cannot get concessions from Italy (such as less co-operation with Germany, no more menacing gestures toward France) without giving away something, and he cannot give away much without arousing opposition at home...
...safer method for depriving the brain of oxygen. They simply attached a five-quart breathing bag filled with pure oxygen to the patient's face, gradually ran out the oxygen and substituted nitrogen. The patient went into convulsions, but when the physicians thought the symptoms had reached a crucial point, they reintroduced pure oxygen into the mask. Five schizophrenic patients have received nitrogen treatment, said the doctors, and "the results are encouraging...
...cancerous families. They also urged laboratory study of "the fundamental problem" in cancer: the origin of the "cell with a capacity for unlimited or uncontrolled growth." Private workers and agencies have "almost entirely neglected" this problem, and it is up to Government workers, concluded the scientists, to answer the crucial question: ". . . Is there a break in the internal control mechanism of the cell, or is there a loss in body control of cell activity...
Today the Elephants meet the Deacons in what may turn out to be the crucial game of the year...
...crucial hour arrived for Paris. At the Gare St. Lazare, a train stood with steam up. Troops with fixed bayonets stalked the cold, empty station. Soldiers tossed mail sacks aboard. At 4: 10 the engineer climbed into...