Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coming up fast are the butchers, laundry workers, operating engineers, retail clerks, hatters. Tough, clever George E. Browne's stagehands (up 14,200 to 42,000) lost their fight to hog all theatrical performers (TIME, Aug. 21) but they have just won another and vital struggle to keep A. F. of L. supreme in Hollywood studios, downing C. I. O. in a Labor Board election by a big majority...
...There is another element. The concertizing artist must be able to electrify his audience. You have heard orators whose arguments were completely logical but who were not convincing. Something vital was missing. The man who plays before the public must have that something--that some conductors have, of charging with the magnetism of their will not only the audience but the men of the orchestra...
...question: who would run the U. S. in time of war? was vital. But that question alone did not move him to act last week. The President was in a peculiar and exasperating position. For on him, to his pained surprise, was hung the tag of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Stettinius and at least three of his fellow boardmen, it was being said, were present or onetime minions of the House of Morgan. By itself this circumstance would have been a nine-day wonder to be pondered and forgotten, along with Mr. Roosevelt's sundry other and short...
...scalpel should be swept across the tissues, not pressed into them." Sutures should be of silk "so fine that it - breaks when such strain is put upon it as will cut through living tissue. . . . One-handed knots and rapidly thrown knots are unreliable. Each knot is of vital importance in the success of an operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know the benefits and dangers of every type of anesthetic; local anesthesia, for example, should not be used in malignant tumor operations, or in the presence of infection...
...Faculty found an issue so uncommonly vital at its meeting on Tuesday that two hours of debate did not satisfy it, and it adjourned for a week. Usually the Faculty meets only for formal purposes and then delegates its work to the smaller Faculty Council. But on Tuesday the full Faculty (consisting of all ranks over and including Faculty Instructors) was discussing a question which must have seemed more pressing than any that has come up in President Conant's six-year tenancy of University Hall...