Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize pigs. The daily sport of popular Prime Minister Bruce is to hop from home to office by private airplane, hop back, and thus stable his winged mount in the cellar of his residence. Last week Pigfancier Baldwin and Planefancier Bruce became thoroughly vexed with one another over the vital problem of British unemployment. Cables flashed from England to Australia told that Mr. Baldwin said, last week, in the British House of Commons: "The state of permanent unemployment in Great Britain may now be considered an Empire emergency. . . . His Majesty's Government in Great Britain will continue the policy...
...increase in taxation." 5) "Introduction of the most crystalline simplicity and clarity in all state accounts, so that each citizen, without the aid of metaphysics of accounting or computing machines, can read them and understand them." 6) "Vigilant economy and inflexible refusal to authorize any economic enterprise not considered vital." Clearly the stringency of this Six Point Cycle means that // Duce will not stop short of so-called "Wartime measures" to ensure the fiscal recovery of Italy and prompt payment of her war debts. Ceaseless and ever potent must be Finance Minister Mosconi's fecund activity. Inspiring...
Such questions, vital, cannot be answered without a preliminary brisk reading of the short treaty text, followed by a stimulating mental rubdown with the treaty reservations...
However, Egyptians are not Britons. They are a weak people, for centuries the vassals of conquerors. If Great Britain abandoned them to true independence, they would again fall prey to some other Power-which Power would then control the Suez Canal, the chief route to India, vital artery of British trade...
...original defendants were 49 Russians and 3 Germans. The Russians were charged with High Treason and all defendants with conspiracy to sabotage (disablement) of the vital coal mines in the region...