Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the heart has ceased to beat is the body dead? Certainly many persons have been buried after mere certification that their hearts have ceased to beat. Some have come alive in the dark tomb, only to die unsuccored. May it then be that the heart pulsations are not paramount in sustaining life? Such is the theory advanced last week by Dr. Martin Mendelsohn, holder since 1899 of the Chair of Diseases of the Heart at Berlin University. He declared that other tests than cessation of the heartbeats must be made before certifying a patient dead...
These four Tafts and their birthplace, Cincinnati, loomed paramount in the U. S. art world last week- for Mr. &; Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft suddenly bequeathed $1,000,000, their house and their $3,000,000 private collection of paintings and art objects to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts...
...featured by addresses by men, authorities in the fields of religion, labor, education, and international politics Among them are Professor K. F. Mather, H. P. Van Dusen, Henry Sloane Coffin and H. H. Tweedy. Forums will also be held on ten subjects which the Council believes to be of paramount importance today...
...officially "stabilized"' German currency has wavered a trifle on international exchange, of late, making its defense a paramount concern...
...Geology at the University, J. Fleming, H. P. Van Dusen, Henry Sloane Coffin and H. H. Tweedy. After each of the addresses by these men there will be an opportunity for questions and comments. Forums will be held on ten subjects which the Council believes to be of paramount importance today. They are: Problems of Belief; Worship, The World Task of the Church, Industry, Race, China, Social Relationships, Modern Education. International Relations and Vocational Guidance. These groups will meet each day and will give an opportunity for an understanding of the facts, through thinking and free expression of opinion...