Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gratitude, is due to the staff of Government 1 for bringing new life to a tottering and untidy giant. Because it enrolls half of Harvard's undergraduates, because it affords many of them their only glimpse into the mysteries of the realm politic, since it deals with vital subject matter, Government 1 must possess exemplary efficiency and value. It is only to be hoped that realization fulfills anticipation...
...ought to get down to business. But he also knows he can't dictate subjects to himself. And today just seems to be not his day to rave of scholastic oratory. It's Saturday--the first one of the New Year--and the Vag will probably spout about more vital matters. Such as football...
...sympathy for the American colonies has proved prophetic. Of the 2,000,000 pieces of pottery the Wedgwoods make and sell for about $1,000,000 each year, over 50% are sold in the U. S. and Canada, where the favorite pattern is undecorated, embossed, cream-colored. So vital is the U. S. market that when the company's representative in Manhattan, Kennard Laurence Wedgwood, was made chairman in 1930, he stayed right where he was. The only thing which takes Chairman Kennard back to England is the annual stockholders' meeting, tantamount to a family reunion since...
...York Herald Tribune thought he had found out in Tokyo last week. According to him, the Cabinet decided that once the Japanese Army takes Hankow, the present Chinese capital, no further invasion of China will be pressed. Since the beginning of the war observers have agreed that the most vital question was how big a piece of China the Japanese would decide to try to chew. Thus far they have shown every sign of recklessly trying to gorge themselves to eventual suffocation...
...Government's vital statistics bureau announced that marriages in the Ostmark (onetime Austria) numbered 4,126 in July, almost quadrupling Austria's 1,092 in July 1937. Delighted, a bureau spokesman announced: "It is hoped that next year's birthrate in the Ostmark will be at least double that of 1938." Since August 1, however, more than 10,000 applications for divorce have been filed in Vienna. Reason: under papal law in Austria, a marriage in which one spouse was Roman Catholic was indissoluble by divorce; now that the Ostmark is under German law, divorce...