Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cried President Chiang Kai-shek, concluding the Conference: "It is gratifying to witness such a spirit of sincerity and co-operation as has been shown by those assembled in this attempt to solve the country's most vital and complicated internal question. When this conference opened, I said that the future of China depended on its success. I say now that the success of the conference depends on our fulfilling the measures we have adopted...
Lieut. Carrington's letter weighed less than two ounces, but it fell from a bombing plane which carried torpedoes weighing 1,800 lbs. each, and it fell within the vital area of the Miraflores and Pedro Miguel Locks of the Panama Canal. And it fell while the U. S. battle fleet was attempting last week to "destroy" the Canal in the most intricate of war games. The U. S. scouting fleet was trying to defend...
...attack did the Blue scouting cruisers and destroyers discover the whereabouts of the Black fleet's chief threat. By then it was too late. In the early morning the Saratoga pushed her bow into the wind, 45 planes soared from her launching deck, made their way above the vital locks. At the same time the Aroostook, representing the absent aircraft-carrier Langley, a giant Sikorsky started across the Isthmus to the locks Gatun, dropped its "bombs,"' was interned in "neutral" territory...
...decision was welcomed by the New York Central. It marked the Commis sion's first favorable decision on a question concerning vital railroad consolidation. Both the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Big Four") and the Michigan Central have long been New York Central subsidiaries, New York Central owning more than 90% of their stocks. They have been operated as separate units, however, and the New York Central based its consolidation plea on the argument that "the necessity for protecting the earnings of each carrier" prevented complete unification and coordination of the system. A. H. Harris, chairman...
Thus ran the key sentence in a most vital resolution adopted, last week at Bucharest, by the Rumanian Women's League...