Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lending power, its vital function, was due to expire Jan. 31. Its great days were gone with the emergency which called it into being. For a year it had been chiefly winding up its affairs, collecting old loans, making few new ones.* But President Roosevelt wanted its lending powers, and those of four subordinate credit agencies,** extended to June 30, 1939. A bill to that effect was reported out by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee...
...professional fencing master who witnessed the 20-minute bout: "Mussolini was faster and more agile. He showed his years of constant training. Göring was the stronger. He showed surprising speed for a man of his size and revealed himself to be an accomplished swordsman." It was vital to observe last week how blunt-how surcharged with what was evidently a feeling of Might-were the summaries given to correspondents in Rome and Berlin of what Mussolini and Göring talked about and agreed on during the business intervals of a round of Italian fetes for General-Oberst...
Always on the lookout for odd facts of life, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s researchers last week turned up the following vital statistics concerning the preferred matrimonial partners of the widowed and the divorced...
Rapid and correct presentation of slides for lectures in all Fine Arts courses is obviously a vital necessity. When this feature of the classes is not handled properly the results may well be more than merely annoying. In Fine Arts le many complaints have been made because of the inefficiency of the technical assistants. Occasionally slides appear on the screen upside down or out of order, and time is wasted while the correction is made...
...combined, of course, with a continuation of a policy of keeping costs down as much as is humanly possible. The training of the mind is liberally provided for, but is comparatively futile without a corresponding care for that of the body. In due course farsighted graduates may fill this vital need. In the meantime, however, a stop-gap method must be applied...