Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Friends. Victory in California meant more than the state's 68 delegates for Stevenson. It also meant that he had knocked Kefauver all the way out of the presidential ring, a vital display of political muscle. In the golden afterglow of the Golden State primary, many an uncertain delegate around the U.S. began to lean more and more toward Stevenson. But the big prize was by no means in his hands. The end of the primaries signaled the start of a whole new battle in the struggle for the Democratic nomination, a struggle of political maneuver that would...
Expansion loomed as the major problem, and an essentially insoluble one. While the CRIMSON'S efforts to clear up the problem were not entirely successful, a few general conclusions were reached. Expansion, which seems to be approaching inexorably, must not undermine the most vital and distinctive features of Harvard education: the tutorial system, adequate library facilities, and, most important, adequate housing space to provide for concentrated private study. To preserve these valued institutions while recognizing the inevitability of enlargements, the University must do some really long-range planning. Meanwhile, expansion aside, an eighth house is absolutely necessary...
...fortunate, Dr. Steiner notes, that most tumors arise at sites which he calls "expendable." These, if detected early, meaning before they have spread, are indeed often curable. But they may soon spread to vital parts. "The surgeon is constantly reducing the number of anatomical structures that are essential to life, but at this time there appears to be a limit beyond which he cannot hope to go. The brain, heart, some lung tissue, and other organs will probably be indispensable for some time. The [cancers] involving these parts are threats to life from the time of their origin...
...closer to target today than they were in the pre-World War II period. Major reason is the ever-increasing range and volume of information on the econ omy. As chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Arthur Burns has greatly speeded the flow of vital statistics from marketplace to slide rule; e.g., housing trends, long forecast by the volume of construction starts, are now tracked months earlier on the basis of mortgage applications. Burns helped devise two of the profession's widely used yardsticks while director of the august National Bureau of Economic Research...
Ragged but shrewd, scattered but organized, the rebel army was striking the most telling blows of the bitter, 19-month war. For Algeria's 9,000,000 acres of grain are vital for France as well as Algeria (Algeria is France's No.1 customer). Last week 300,000 French troops were trying desperately to protect Algerian farmers getting in the harvest...