Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact. Everything conflicts. . . . 'Economic war' is the current phrase for describing this state of affairs. ... I will not dwell on the pacific phraseology in which we disguise economic war, which, quite as much as armed conflicts, sheds the blood of the weak in order to increase the vital resources of the strong. The case is too plain to admit of argument...
...Plum!" to a Dane and he will think of butter-vital Danish export...
...approaching his goth birthday, had known Panic before Morgan Partner Lament was born. Compared to Morgan-Baker efforts of the past, however, the 1929 crisis was notable through the presence of a non-Morgan bank-National City, by far the largest in the U. S.-in a position of vital importance...
...inclined to think that collegiate chatter is more apt to be incomprehensible to the educated than to the uneducated. To the Cornellian, academic duties serve as the background for the year's activities, and he is willing to let them stay as far in the background as his more vital enjoyments require. Be he interested in extra-curricular activities, the social whirl, or merely loafing, he allots his time so as to accommodate that interest. If something has to be neglected. It is his University work; he does not intend to let his studies, interfere with his education...
...main address Orator MacDonald touched on a novel topic vital to U. S. citizens: "Freedom of the Seas." If there should be another War would the British Navy again wield the weapon of Blockade? Weaseling well, he answered: "You have signed a pact of peace. And when I say you I mean Canada. . . . We have done the same, France has done the same, Italy has done the same and the United States has done the same! ... If there is to be no war there is to be no blockade. What is the use of bothering ourselves and wasting our time...