Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tuning in station WIXFW at 7:30 o'clock in the morning, a radio fan may catch the signals sent down to earth by the radiosonde. Because upper air conditions are vital to air pilots, the Observatory has been getting help from the International Ice Patrol, the United States Weather Bureau, M. I. T., the Navy, and the Canadian, British, French, and Danish governments...
...integrated companies (such as Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texas Corporation, Gulf Oil), this is not vital. If their refining operations show a loss, it is merely a bookkeeping matter provided that their crude oil production is efficient, shows a greater profit, for they still have net earnings. To Consolidated Oil which has to buy approximately half the crude oil it refines-and to other refiners without their own crude oil supply-the difference between the prices of crude and of gasoline is serious...
This petition included several provisions embodied in a similar protest submitted by last year's Student Council Committee on the Houses but not accepted in the present Student Council report, which merely recommends various remedies for the vital problems...
...field. It has led with an attempt to cut off the sources of information and supply to the tutors. As a vast extension of the previous rule regarding scholarship holders, it has decreed that no students shall be employed by the Massachusetts Avenue schools. This rule will be a vital link in Harvard's chain of action. In itself, it will strike a heavy blow at the tutoring bureaus--just how stunning the proprietors alone know. It must be enforced; and a cooperative attitude from the students, together with ruthlessness on the part of University officials are capable of doing...
Democratic Spirit Vital...