Word: vita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest surprise of all, naturally, is "Harvey" himself. Harvey is the pooka, and the pooka is Harvey-he's the miracle that Elwood P. Dowd found leaning against a lamp post after a big night with the boys, and he quite thoroughly disturbs Elwood's sister, Vita, who thinks, but is not quite positive, that he is ruining her social reputation...
Chief of Government Pierre Laval was, by reports, in Paris. With him he carried the bulky manuscript of his Apologia Pro Vita Sua. On it he reportedly had worked for a year, scribbling hundreds of pages to prove that he was first & last a Frenchman with the interests of France at heart, after that a pro-Allied, anti-Nazi Frenchman who did the best he could...
...University's Encyclopaedia Britannica (TIME, May 24), its film unit which is now working out plans for rapid expansion, its radio Round Table. > Hutchins inspired the students' Daily Maroon to offer $750 in prizes for a motto to replace the present one, Cres-cat Scientia Vita Excolatur, which means "Let Knowledge Grow That Life May Be Enriched." But some people do not understand Latin, and others do not understand "enriched" as spiritually as President Hutchins would wish. He proposed a line from Walt Whitman: "Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a new world...
Says Headmaster Keep: "It's a great success. The boys are thoroughly serious. They expect to serve in the armed forces." Berkshire's motto is Pro vita, non pro schola discimus ("We learn not for school but for life...
Department of Agriculture experts have lately made some special studies of this subject, learned that "light has a remarkable effect upon the accumulation of vita...