Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian churches in Germany have taken such a beating from the Nazi regime in 1937 that good Nazi adherents had begun to wonder whether it would be politically safe this year for them to celebrate Christmas. Taking up this vital question, Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Adolf Hitler's black-uniformed Special Guard, which consistently baits Jews, Catholics, Protestants, last week assured Germans that they might observe Christmas without being guilty of "unGerman practices," It asserted: "Christmas is no intellectual property of the Christian confessions. They simply borrowed it without asking permission. . . . This holiday is the exclusive property...
...this chronicle, this story, has had as much to do with shaping the course of world affairs for the last nineteen hundred years as any other single factor. And not only did the Jewish religion give birth to the Christian, but its contributions in its own right are a vital force in modern society...
...given the Spanish Leftists. Soviet bombers arrived in China in considerable numbers and went into action last week (see p. 19), but Prince Konoye drew attention to the fact that Tokyo and Moscow continue quietly negotiating renewal of the treaty permitting Japanese to fish in Soviet waters. So vital is this to Japanese economy that experts believe Stalin could hurt Japan almost as much by canceling the fishing treaty as U. S. we len could by switching to cotton stockings...
...communities in the United States shelter as large a collection of anonymous scholars as that area vaguely designated as Harvard Square, where hundreds of men learned in their special fields live in comparative seclusion. Their function is vital to posterity, but it is often a thankless job so far as they personally are concerned. Any movement which can draw these men out and give them an opportunity to share their knowledge with the public and earn its immediate appreciation, not only renders a service to society, but repays the scholars in part for their labor and lends them added incentive...
...wish the psychiatrist no harm, but if great religions could have more hold on the people, there would be less use for them. Vital religion aids one in ridding oneself of this sense of guilt...