Word: important
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater import in the future, however, is the question of establishing a home rink for the University teams in Cambridge. Financially and in other ways, the Athletic Association is both dependent upon and too closely connected with the Boston Garden, a purely professional enterprise. Because of the present situation, the Harvard hockey team is viewed in the light of an attraction for hockey fans, regardless of their interest in either Harvard of amateur sport. That Harvard is a bonanza for the proprietors of the Boston rink, is palpable. The placement of all University sport activities in Cambridge is necessary...
...first his voice trembled with both the novelty and the import of the occasion. Quickly, however, his cadenced Latin gained measured speed. Latin adepts had difficulty keeping up with his racing thoughts and Italian pronunciation. As soon as he finished, translators, who had stood by him, vernacularized in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish the substance of his message which began...
...Sanger's great, good and aged friend, Senator Gillett, gave her 15 minutes to rebut her critics. Rapidly and angrily she pounced on them: "Of women who visit Birth Control clinics 33% are Protestant, 32% Catholic, 31% Jewish. . . . We only ask that medical men be allowed to import contraceptive articles and that medical journals be permitted to print articles on the subject...
...Harvard professor opened up a cat and beheld certain belly muscles tickling its heart. That was of such profound physiological import that the professor, Walter Bradford Cannon, a great physiologist, last week took train to Yale, which once gave him an honorary Doctor of Science degree, to tell the Yale Medical Society just what he had done, what he had seen, what it all meant...
After many weeks of cogitation and cautious explanation, the New York Stock Exchange last week raised a phrase of Wall Street's vocabulary from obscurity to national import and significance. The phrase: Secondary Distribution. Basic in the Exchange's structure has been the principle that members receive commissions, but pay no commissions to their employes, for business in Big Board stocks and bonds. Also basic has been the general rule that no member has a listed security ''for sale." A member might advise a stock, might buy it in the open market for a customer...