Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage, a little man, one-third fore head and nearly two-thirds shirt front; saw him bow, start to play. A group of Preludes and Fugues, the Partia in C minor, the Toccata in G minor and the French Suite in E - he interpreted flawlessly and made them vital, thrilling...
Dean Briggs, when asked to characterize Professor Norton as he knew him described the founder of the Fine Arts department as an older man whose attitude towards young men placed them at ease, and whose enthusiastic love of art and literature made his lectures vital instead of dry or academic...
Berthelot proved the science of organic chemistry. Before him chemists thought that they could make compounds only of inorganic elements, that organic growths depended upon a "vital principle." Berthelot reasoned that all chemical phenomena followed physical laws. In his laboratory he treated glycerin with certain acids and got fats, oils and butters. He combined hydrogen and carbon by means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene...
...Haven Emerson, professor of public health administration at Columbia had said: "In the absence of any evidence that health, as revealed by vital statistics, is less good in the U. S. in 1927 than it was in 1920 [when prohibition became law], and since we have good reason to believe that less rather than more alcohol per capita is now being consumed in this country than when traffic in alcoholic beverages was an industry acceptable under the law, and since we know that alcohol used by healthy persons does not add to their health, it is my opinion that some...
Experiments in scientific methods for locating ore deposits are being conducted by the Mining Geology department of the Engineering School. The exhaustion of metal resources which can be discovered by unscientific methods makes the development of electrical and geological methods of discovery vital to the future metal supply of the world...