Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Manchuria Railway is Japan's Panama Canal. She holds it by treaty & might. It is a vital artery of Japan's trade, tapping the rich Chinese territory of Manchuria in which so many thousands of Japanese farmers have settled. Japan ought to have done years ago what she did last week-namely, appointed a President of the South Manchuria Railway who is above party strife...
...escaping from a sunken submarine can breathe the minutes required for him to bob to the surface and rescue. That is, if he can get out of his deep, steel prison. Since the Momsen "lung" was invented there has been no U. S. submarine catastrophe to give it vital testing. And for the Davis "lung" none until last week...
Egyptian Fraud. As everyone knows, Great Britain must control the Suez Canal, vital "backbone" of Empire trade. Therefore she must control Egypt. She does so through Puppet-King Fuad. In the past two years His Majesty has cut himself off, step by step, from the Egyptian people and their elected representatives. When the anti-British and popular Wafd party won the last election by a majority of 19 to 1 over all opponents combined (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), it became clear that if King Fuad was to remain on his throne and remain a British puppet the next election would...
...work of the 1930-31 Council has been done quietly and unobtrusively, Committees have investigated problems of vital importance to the undergraduate; the largest and most comprehensive report is still to come, that on the tutorial system and the general examinations. Under the leadership of one of the ablest presidents a Harvard Student Council has over had, the group has shown that it is more than a subcommittee of the athletic council, a suspicion which had been increasing for several years...
...motion. The bearman, turning upon Foreign Minister Julius Curtius of Germany, wanted to know why he was not for prompt action. Dr. Curtius, especially afraid of M. Litvinov because Germany needs Russian orders so badly, stammered that he was not personally opposed but must consult his Government on so vital a matter...