Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice of courses during the first year, and finally to help the Freshmen select his field of concentration. The new freedom of the Conant administration, the changes in both language and distribution requirements, with the consequent deflation of prescribed courses, has made the first of these duties more vital than ever before...
...whole works every four hundred years leads inevitably to confusion and discontent. It is not only subversive, it is stupid. It is high time that those organizations which concern themselves with the welfare of humanity devote some time and effort, money and thought to a problem that is as vital as it is neglected...
...state has reached a sorry pass when it must consider such a ridiculous proposal as this tax bill. With all the luxuries and semi-luxuries which its citizens enjoy, why must Massachusetts talk of imposing insane taxes on such vital institutions as its savings banks? Amusement, radio, gasoline, cigarette taxes, heavy as they are already, would provide adequate revenue, and prove infinitely more welcome than the imposition of exorbitant assessments on savings ascents, large and small...
...machine guns and Russian bombing planes which have been rushed to Urga and were last week spectacularly unlimbered, Japanese-Manchurian Armies would soon have tried to sweep all before them and cut across Outer Mongolia to sever the Trans-Siberian Railway at Lake Baikal. By that slashing of a vital artery, Japan could consider that she had all but assassinated Soviet Eastern Asia and that Vladivostok, cut off from Moscow, must surrender like Port Arthur. To minimize the effect of such a thrust, if it should come, Russia is now frantically rushing to completion a Second Trans-Siberian Railway north...
...their adaptation with a pair of shears and a paste-pot. Yet no company but M-G-M bid for the book. It is as far from conventional screen material as a good fox-night from the sick air of a soundstage. Director Richard Thorpe has kept a newsreel vitality in his telling of the tale, much of which was made in Missouri, almost the whole of it out-of-doors. It is Lionel Barrymore's best part in years and a valid and vital contribution to current cinema. Some shots: Possums drowsing on a bough, hounds running down...