Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lack of summer credit would work considerable hardship on many who find extra study vital to their Harvard education. Two years of summer work can help many students cut mounting College costs by lopping off a year from the normal four year program. While, for most students, the School provides a unique chance to unburden an often crowded winter program. And to make an academic summer still more palatable, the School features smaller classes (the largest is 80), lower prices, and new social ratios. But with increased costs everywhere, the school must explore new ways of increasing Harvard interest...
...Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. announce the great misfortune which has befallen our party and our people-the grave illness of Comrade J. V. Stalin. During the night of March 1 to 2, Comrade Stalin . . . had a hemorrhage . . . which affected vital parts of his brain. . . The Central Committee and the Council of Ministers express confidence that our party and the whole Soviet people will . . . display the greatest unity and cohesion, staunchness of spirit and vigilance...
...correctly and treated it properly. A pathologist sawed off the top of the dead dictator's skull and laid bare the brain To their infinite relief, the doctors saw "a large area of hemorrhage in the grey matter of the left hemisphere of the brain." This had destroyed vital functions of the brain." The brain arteries were hardened...
...dresses are tailored for an Austrian peasant effect. She talks lightly of Washington society, Hong Kong social intrigue, New York or Paris fashions. But the observant visitor is not misled: Madame Rhee is a woman attuned to politics and power. She is present, or in the background, of most vital meetings. When she and Rhee met, their common language was English. Today she professes to have forgotten the German of her youth, and her English is so much better than Rhee's that she often helps him out in difficult interviews. She also speaks what she calls "kitchen Korean...
Instead of forcing a premature showdown, Dulles could help settle the vital dispute. France demands some safeguard from a future attack by Germany. Dulles could give them this protection by assuring the French of aid in the event of attack. This would hardly slur the Germans, who insist they will never attack anyway. As the Administration has linked America's fate with that of Europe, this French guarantee would entail no major change of policy. By taking this step Dulles could save EDC from months of internal wrangling and place European rearmament one step nearer completion...