Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veronal. "She remained several days in a hospital. During that time Italian police seized her papers, notably her private diary in which her adventures with Mussolini were recorded. Mussolini, when shown the diary, was touched to see that what to him had been of no importance, had become so vital to her. Gallantly, he ordered all papers returned to the young woman and also an envelope containing about $790 to enable her to get back to France...
Cancer Problem. A cancer is an abnormal growth which may occur anywhere in the body, which destroys adjoining normal tissue, and which may send portions of itself to take root and grow in distant vital organs...
...government", the lectures hold a unique place in Harvard tradition. Professor Ortega has been a consistent liberal thinker, having been instrumental, through his writing, in King Alfonso's abdication. His lectures will provide a stimulating opportunity for students of the social sciences to compare their predigested theories with the vital ideas of an important European political philosopher...
Stressing the fact that learning is necessary to the leaders of opinion today, the President defined this learning as knowledge of the past. "Unless historical perspective can be developed, which is the common patrimony of all the people," he said, "a vital growing civilization cannot be achieved. . . . Only by merging the cultural streams of many groups and concentrating our attention on our common past, brief as it has been, can the ground work be laid for a significant civilization. To me this is the great cultural and intellectual task of the coming generation...
...such an end or to use the means at their command." It is for this reason that Dean Henry W. Holmes, in his annual report for the Graduate School of Education, vigorously insists that teaching should be a "permanent, independent, and powerful profession." No one can deny the vital necessity of sound teachers if we are to build a reliable citizenry and an enduring nation...