Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choice of a group to supervise the city's educational system is, of course, a vital one any year, but this fall's election has a double added significance. In the first place, the outgoing committee, dominated by men who seemed to be considerably more interested in politics than in education, left a stained two-year record behind it. Secondly, the city this year has in the Cambridge Civic Association slate a group of candidates which on the whole is far and away above the normal selection offered for school committee...
...papers on a great crusade in which the normal standards of news reporting are just a deterrent. John Fox and the Post are becoming to Boston what Colonel Robert McCormick and the Tribune are to Chicago: for specific purposes, good or ill depending on your point of view, a vital, moving force in the thought and actions of the community...
...security is now the axiom on which American foreign policy is based. Yet, despite the many advantages of merging scientific research, the United States still maintains a policy of atomic isolation. Co-operation between free world countries would clearly raise the level of Western research. Canada could give us vital information on nuclear piles, while the scientists of England and Australia, given access to America's modern research equipment could complement the work done here. Moreover, the money these nations are spending to repeat what America has done years ago, could be used to advance not duplicate, atomic research...
...Constitution safe, Anderson concluded, is by constantly referring back to its spiritual premises: "There is no essential magic in its construction which preserves it inviolable against the corrosion of false doctrine or careless thinking ... It is only from the knowledge and appreciation of the deep roots of their vital heritage of political freedom that the people of a society are able to derive the wisdom needed to safeguard it for those who come after them...
...Coach Tuss McLaughry's replacements will be no weak sisters. Replacing Miller at the vital quarterback post will be Leo McKenna, a sophomore, who led a losing cause against Colgate last week...