Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indications were clear last week that the University is finally planning a Center of International Studies, after years of indecision have fostered continuing weakness in the curriculum of this vital area. Who will head such a Center, how soon it can be completed, and what form it will take are important questions that are largely undecided, but it seems that the principle of expanding the International curriculum has finally been accepted over strong opposition...
...Collapse. The meeting ended without a decision. Right after the ministers withdrew, Eden's condition became alarmingly apparent. Sir Horace Evans was summoned, arrived at 9:30 p.m. He immediately declared that a complete rest was vital. Butler and Macmillan were still on hand, and were called in. The three agreed, then and there, that Butler should take over the job of presiding at Cabinet meetings and should reply in the Prime Minister's place in Commons. Otherwise, he and Macmillan were to act jointly. Thus there would be no acting Prime Minister with full powers in Eden...
Most doctors pay little attention to the pubococcygeus until a woman has serious trouble;resulting from its inability to support vital organs-usually after childbirth. Then, in severe cases, they call in the surgeon. Dr. Kegel, 62, gynecologist and onetime (1927-31) health commissioner of Chicago, argues that this is wrong on two counts: 1) the importance of the pubococcygeus has been neglected because it has usually been studied only in cadavers, where it is always flaccid, whereas its weakness should be detected promptly in living patients; 2) there is a better way than surgery to correct most cases...
Harl Cook looks at life cheerfully. He is the son of George Cram "Jig" Cook, founder of the Provincetown Playhouse and inspirer of Eugene O'Neill when the playwright's work was first produced on the Cape in 1916. The elder Cook, writes O'Neill, was "always enthusiastic, vital, impatient with everything that smacked of falsity--he represented the spirit of revolt." Cook fils is also something of a rebel. When Cook pere died, a legacy to Harl provided for a Harvard education. About 1930, Harl came to Harvard--for three days--and then packed off with his inherited loot...
...shortage is so serious that Government maritime officials are talking about some sort of priority system to allocate supplies. The problem is that so many industries are pinched for supplies that the Office of Defense Mobilization fears that special treatment for shipbuilders will bring demands from many other vital industries, force the Government to institute a complete controlled-materials program such as the one in effect during the Korean...