Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times by both Great Britain and Russia. Nor did the Foreign Minister allude to arrangements with His Majesty which have occasionally furthered the infiltration of Soviet agitators through Afghanistan into India. Such matters are not for the press. But Comrade Tchitcherin did stress in able and complimentary fashion the vital importance of Afghanistan in three respects. First, as a militant and independent power, dominating the junction of important Asiatic trade routes. Second, as a nation without railways, which thus interrupts the bands of steel which would otherwise stretch from Europe to India. And third, as an undeveloped virgin field...
...requisite fifteen and today will assume its functions for the coming year. What those functions are to be, whether they are going to serve a legitimate and useful purpose in the College, or are to become more shadowy, just as the vote has become more scattered, is the most vital question confronting the newly assembled Council members...
Ambassador Grew has never minced words in declaring that the continued efficient functioning of the American Hospital is of vital import to the U. S. colonies in Constantinople and in cities of the Balkan and Asiatic hinterlands. Yet the hospital has faced a deficit for the past several years and can scarcely continue functioning through the present twelvemonth if financial aid is not speedily forthcoming from the U. S. Director Dr. Shepard of the Hospital and School has economized and scrimped. The nurses now in training who go out upon graduation to spread U. S. medical methods in Turkey...
...political thunderbolt, craftily prepared, was hurled by Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, last week, in an effort to weaken the Opposition parties by discrediting their extreme left wing, the Ronoto or Farmer-Laborites. The vital import of the Ronoto is that its two Deputies give the Opposition a theoretical plurality of two over the Government parties, in the newly elected Diet (TIME, March 5) which will shortly assemble. Numbers: Opposition, including Ronoto, 228; Government, 226; and Independents...
...original Hartford died in 1917. Two of his three sons carried on the business; George is Chairman, John is President.* They are unique: although they are heads of a mammoth nation-wide company dealing in vital commodities, they are permitted to lead a life of almost absolute seclusion from the public. Thus a minimum of publicity ensued from a romantic interlude in which President John Hartford was divorced from his wife, married his wife's modiste, remarried his first wife, as a result of which the modiste-wife told great tales of living at the rate...