Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem." The suggestion that "Bat" and "Loon" are the only guided missiles to have passed the blueprint stage is not quite correct. There are several projects that have entered the test phase, but of course no elaboration on any such projects can be given because of the security regulations vital to national defense. The conservative and factual presentation made by TIME is representative of the high type of journalism necessary in the development of a program of this nature. . . . KEITH B. MCCUTCHEON Lieut. Colonel, U.S.M.C. Washington...
...exports while, at the same time, saving dollars by not buying food or permitting some individual freedom of buying. Because Britain is overly sensitive of her debtor status she offers her workers intellectual incentives--promises that four or five sacrificing years will bring the long sought fruits. But the vital daily incentives, the extra meat, or new suit of clothes, are withheld...
...more than sad to see the man who succeeded Mr. Roosevelt as President of the U.S. not only unappreciative of these most vital truths, but denouncing those...
...bloodclotting, e.g., coronary thrombosis. For reasons not yet perfectly understood (too little exercise, poor metabolism, infection), blood cells sometimes begin to stick together to form a thrombus (a stationary clot). But the thrombus grows, may eventually let loose daughter clots (emboli) which swim on to lodge at vital bottlenecks in the blood stream. A thrombus which lodges in a coronary (heart) artery, blocking off the blood supply to the heart muscle, can kill within a few minutes; a clot in the brain causes a stroke...
...weapons, though they did enormous damage, did not win the war. They were incomplete, says McCutcheon, in one vital respect: "Suitable guidance and control of the missiles after launching. In the strict sense of the word, they were not true guided missiles but artillery projectiles with extended range...