Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total output of U. S. machinery the machine tools bulk small?about 2%. But it is a vital 2%, for all other machinery is made with machine tools. And machine tools are the only machines that can reproduce themselves...
...himself elected to the U. S. Senate, he refused to go to Washington until he could arrange to leave Louisiana bound and gagged in the hands of a Long-chosen Governor. At the Democratic Convention in 1932, he was not only Senator but Dictator of Louisiana and with his vital votes Franklin Roosevelt was nominated. But President Roosevelt refused to pay the political debts which Huey Long thought Candidate Roosevelt had contracted. So Huey Long, the ex-drummer, was a pariah instead of a leader in the most powerful Administration in U. S. history. All he had, besides Louisiana...
Particularly if a second concession, involving Lake Tana, has been obtained, Mr. Rickett is operating in what His Majesty's Government lately told the House of Commons is officially "one of the most vital spheres of British interest." In past decades concessions obtained by British promoters from unwary potentates have repeatedly enabled British diplomats, often years afterward, to wangle, bluff and bludgeon much Empire spoil into the bag. From this point of view the Lion's left paw seemed well placed last week...
...longtime preservation, removal of the vital organs is not necessary. Carbolic acid, however, dissolves gas in the body and the abdomen is then likely to collapse. This can be corrected by packing the abdominal cavity with cotton. Whether or not Lenin's viscera have been tampered with, his brain was removed, dissected into thousands of pieces, some of which were sent to Paris and Berlin. The Lenin brain cells, it appeared, were much larger than normal...
...relationship which has cut him off from his world, leaves Anna to join his regiment; and the snowy night when Anna goes to the station to say goodby to him and waits alone after he is gone, to kill herself. Largely omitted from all this are the vital secondary themes of the novel, the marriage of Levin (Gyles Isham) and Kitty (Maureen O'Sullivan), the complex affairs of Anna's brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) and his wife (Phoebe Foster). Far more important, however, is what Producer David Selznick and Director Clarence Brown contrived to stretch the limitations of their medium...