Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sprays of tannic acid (TIME, March 22) were used to coagulate the surfaces of their bodies and prevent evaporation of their vital juices. Pints of blood were pumped into their veins, and all the glucose solution they could stand. Oxygen too was necessary, for noxious gases generated by burning fabric and fuel oil had poisoned their lungs. Between Life & Death their chances were even...
...faith of the graduates was well founded. These three men, enlarging and improving the school, made it a more vital influence in the nation. It has become the foremost institution of the kind in the world, profoundly affecting the teaching and the concepts of the law in all English speaking countries...
...that the official Harvard snub to the University of Goettingen should have come during the twenty-four hours when the whole civilized world German nation. No matter what one's political ideology may be, the Hindenburg has shown that many of the things which we regard as important and vital in life can flame up and turn to dust and ashes in a moment before a touch of the hand of the Unknown...
...kind in the world. He bought 100 acres at Teterboro and took a three-year option on Teterboro Airport where he plans a $3,000,000 "aviation city" to manufacture present Bendix aviation products and develop new ones, such as blind landing systems, for which there is vital need. Some 500 men will soon start work on the site, 20 minutes from Manhattan across George Washington Bridge, constructing a factory, laboratory and foundry big enough for 2,500 workers. One device they will make when the plant is completed next winter and for which many airlines are eagerly waiting...
...from the University's general funds, two commendable purposes will be served at once. House athletics will be braced by the much-needed tonic of well organized sports, while it will be possible to give remuncrative work to a few members of each House. At the same time the vital interests of the Houses will be consulted by having the Masters voice their approval of the intra-mural managers who are selected. In this way no House will be consigned to athletic oblivion through the appointment of incompetent or unpopular managers...