Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consequently, the newspapers of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton take great pleasure in removing from the presses the Fourth Edition, Revised, of the H-Y-P Conference. Down where the Gothic spires of Princeton rise so incredibly from the flat tidal lands of New Jersey, men will examine the vital processes which motivate a nation; The Crimson hopes that Harvard's intellectual aristocracy will attend the examination...
...event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend all the support in their power. They have given the Polish Government an assurance to this effect...
BERLIN--The German foreign Office tonight semi-officially served a blunt warning on Poland that unless the "vital rights" of the German minority there are respected developments may be "harmful to the Polish nation itself...
...limits. Even Mr. Hutchins and Mr. Conant, who are more comfortable glaring at each other across a ring, stand united on this point. Specialization, so they say, has gone too far when each separate field loses its meaning. Scholars have lost the true perspective; they no longer perceive the vital relations between the individual branches of learning. Education has become a meaningless chaos of information...
...print stories of ministerial crises (often before they occurred), got first copies of dispatches from diplomats abroad, read the Queen's speeches before the Queen herself had read them. Editor Delane made Cabinet members so scared of The Thunderer that often they hurried to tell him their most vital decisions to save themselves from attack...