Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final products are judged primarily on amount, although purity is important. The time element is also vital; Green set a new record with his elapsed time of four hours and 14 minutes. In order to get through the seven preparations in the required time contestants must know every step of the complicated process by heart...
Another strategic metal which has been in great shortage is cobalt, vital for hardening jet engines to resist intense heat. Last week the ingenuity of U.S. industry promised to boost the supply of cobalt 40% by 1953. Source of the promise: a new chemical refining process developed by American Cyanamid Co., fourth biggest U.S. chemical company...
Persuasive as this is, it is still no excuse for University interference, since the cases are strictly the students' business. The University is under no more obligation to help them than it is to help some undergraduate group escape financial difficulties. Yet there is one vital service which the Dean's Office could perform with-out abandoning its traditional and proper aloofness. It should prepare a list of lawyers who would be willing to defend students booked on charges of disturbing the peace, much like the list of doctors the Hygiene Department keeps handy. Next time the paddy wagons come...
...chairman of the vital Armed Services Committee, Russell has gained a knowledge of military affairs respected throughout the Pentagon. He has been highly successful in translating from the Pentagonese for other members of the Senate. Last year, after presiding over the explosive MacArthur hearings, he won compliments from both Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur...
...that, Manchuria has the Russians-thousands of them scattered through cities and factories, as "technical advisers"; other thousands at the airfields and depots where Chinese are being trained to fly Russian jets and use Russian armaments; additional thousands working as everything from top executives to lowly trackmen on the vital Manchurian railways, which Soviet Russia operates jointly with the Chinese Communists...