Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police authorities yesterday took the vital organs of pretty 19-year-old Charlotte V. Merrill, who died mysteriously Monday night in Cambridge, to the School of Legal Medicine. Two graduate students who lived near her in a Cambridge rooming house tried unsuccessfully to save the girl's life, but she died shortly after being admitted to the Cambridge City Hospital...
...decision to withdraw was political. "There were some things back there in 1947 that I didn't foresee would happen," said Ike. Among them: that the Secretary of State would make public to a potential enemy the decision that Korea was not in the U.S.'s vital defense perimeter...
...real keystone, he made clear, is the engine, which "must display a fuel economy far superior to any now in operational use, since the rate of fuel consumption is perhaps the most vital weakness of the jet-turbine power plant." In respect to engines, the U.S. is ahead, said Rentschler. The "broad development and use [for military purposes] should result in an unmatched proving ground for those presently superior power plants to which commercial air transports will fall heir...
...bore is 280 millimeters (11 in.). Since the vital parts of an atom bomb must be roughly spherical, the atomic explosive packed into the gun's shell is not likely to be much larger than a sphere eleven inches in diameter (a regulation basketball...
...issues, are the vital factors in the presidential campaign, according to Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government. But, as yet, he has been unable to make up his mind between the two candidates...