Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under way. Division after division moved into the Limes Line, there to face the French poilus long ago shoved into the Maginot Line. Into East Prussia, already an armed camp, went more antiaircraft regiments, and a narrow strip along the border of Poland's vital southern indus trial area was closed to civilians. Reports persisted that a few Italian soldiers had also been brought up there, perhaps as a moral stimulant to their Nazi brothers...
...Italy all last week Benito Mussolini's self-flown, trimotored airplane zoomed down from the sky into the busy countryside as II Duce kept a weather eye on the vital 5,400,000-hectare wheat harvest now in full swing. High winds, heavy rains and floods in May kept the wheat crop close to last year's figure of 293,600,000 bushels though 4% more land was seeded. Quality was poor, too, and favorable weather would be needed even to equal official forecasts. Though in southern Italy recovery from rain and rust was quick, around Bologna...
Foreign Office & Quai d'Orsay declared the incident closed. Cracked the Quai d'Orsay: "We do not consider Maitresse Vital space' (lebensraum...
...ever growing social science courses, but the men on whom the real teaching burden rests are fired; this year ten assistant professors have been released. Harvard's administrators have provided a tentative and incomplete blueprint for a new educational structure but have failed to conserve the vital energies which alone can give it usefulness...
...second successive year the Phi Beta Kappa Society at its final meeting has worried about the state of Harvard education. Last June they merely felt "vital concern for the high academic standards at Harvard" and so thanked the Committee of Eight Prominent Faculty Members for their report on the famous Walsh-Sweezy case. This year the P. B. K.'s brief comment has lengthened into a closely reasoned indictment of University Hall to which the following paragraph is introductory...