Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extra-curricular aspect was a vital part of the original program, and it must be abandoned with regret. But the transcendent importance of the other two features makes this course an economical one. Wisdom to judge the present comes mainly from knowledge of the past; which is to say that Americans can use their institutions more intelligently if they realize how these originated and developed. On the other hand, learning, which has tended in recent eras to fall into tiny, unrelated pieces, has meaning only when it is a related whole. Thus an American Civilization Plan which still teaches history...
...practice the Navy therefore gave a slight edge to Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews' defending "Blacks" as they steamed to sea in cruise formation (standard with all navies) to protect the vital Panama Canal from salty Vice Admiral E. C. ("Old Man") Kalbfus' attacking "Whites...
Italy will import such valuable potential wartime supplies as naphtha and manganese, vital peacetime products such as coal, lumber, wheat and barley. Symbolic of their new pocketbook friendship was the launching at Livorno last week of a small destroyer, Italian-built for the Russian Navy...
...more pleased over the victory than Coach Jack Barnaby, for this is his first season as varsity coach. To him goes no small amount of credit for the win; his enthusiasm, ability and interest in every member of the squad was a vital factor in the constant improvement of the team...
...organ, "Diplomatisch Politische Korrespondenz," said that with security coming from armed strength, Britain no longer need refuse justice to the "vital interests of other nations...