Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumphant onrush of the Chinese Red army in Korea, the master in Peking had long dedicated himself. In a quarter-century of conspiracy and armed aggression against his own people, Mao Tse-tung has never lost his vision of the Chinese Communist movement as a prelude and vital part of the greater international Communist drive for world rule...
...greatest problem in to keep the Board a living part of the Harvard administration; there were times of controversy when the Overseers' approval or rejection was their most vital function. Now these somewhat-negative and limited duties are less important...
Steel & Copper. A case in point was a big shipment of silicon steel (vital for electrical equipment) by Boston's Pacific Trading Corp. Pacific Trading's President Shao Ti Hsu calmly told O'Conor's Senate subcommittee that he bought the steel in Belgium and France, shipped it to China via New York. Did Hsu know that it is illegal to export silicon steel from the U.S. to Communist China? Yes, said Hsu, but the Commerce Department had told him that it was O.K. as long as the steel had not originated in the U.S. That...
Eyes, Ears & Nose. All victims of mongolism have three things in common: 1) mental deficiency, 2) short heads, 3) faces which seem to have been flattened (actually, growth is arrested). Besides these constants, other defects are found so often in mongolism that Dr. Ingalls got a vital clue from analyzing them: the ears are usually malformed, there may be opacities in the eye lens, one of the nasal bones is usually absent, and the middle phalanx of the fifth finger is generally stunted. The clue: all these signs affect tissues which develop at about the eighth week of fetal life...
...Theodore Leonidowitch Althausen suggested an answer: the human body can readjust itself, and learn to function almost normally, with anything more than two feet of jejunum plus the duodenum. Estonian-born Dr. Althausen had previously described a case in which a woman was left with only 18 inches of vital gut she died of malnutrition after three years. Now in Gastroenterology, Dr. Althausen and three colleagues described two cases in which, with but little more small intestine the patients were living normally...