Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigil ceaseless as that of the vestal virgins would have to be maintained in order to keep the schools within their proper limits. On the other hand, the faculty could use these same schools as sources of information about the failings in their course. Tutoring establishments could become vital stimulants for maintaining the tone of the entire curriculum...
...Hendrikus Colijn decided not to be caught napping. Dutch defense plans are to block invaders by blowing up the dikes and flooding one-third of the country, but this takes time to organize. Queen Wilhelmina ordered border battalions mustered to full strength to forestall possible German seizure of the vital sluice gates. Machine guns were placed along the border and reservists were ordered ready for instant service. Harbors and roads were mined. Amsterdam's great commercial airport was commandeered by the Government and heavy bomb-laden Fokkers waited to take...
President Roosevelt and high navy officials advocated the measure as a vital link in the network of defenses which the government is forging to protect the United States and its possessions against attack from the sea or skies
Hindemith has developed an idiom which he has perfectly in his grasp. He has not deserted the old and tried elements of tonality and traditional counterpoint; he has rather employed them as the foundations of a clearly successful and effective idiom. He is one of the most vital and influential figures in contemporary music and it is to be hoped that he will continue to make his contact with America a personal as well as musical one. In view of his treatment at the hands of the present regime in Germany, and his prolonged visits to this country, there...
...join up with her. To belatedly aroused Britain and France, Italy's action was possibly more serious than Herr Hitler's recent challenges. In pushing boldly into the Balkan Peninsula, traditional spawning ground of wars, the Fascist military machine had come perilously close to clashing with the "vital interests" of the British and French Empires. Greek naval bases used by the British Navy are next door to Albania; beyond the Balkans are the rich oil fields, the coveted markets of the Near East...