Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plant before the end of the present session. 2) Some provision should be in the lease so that the lessee would be required to manufacture nitrates as well as electric power, because the manufacture of nitrates would not only tend to give farmers cheaper fertilizer but be absolutely vital to the country in time of war, since nitrates are essential to the production of explosives and the U.S. has almost no domestic source of nitrates...
...accomplished statesmen met as they strolled about the great Spring Fair at Lyons last week. One was the bland and moon-faced M. Christian G. Rakovsky, Soviet Ambassador to France. The other was the vital, curly-haired Mayor of Lyons, M. Edouard Herriot, President of the Chamber of Deputies, former Premier, and still leader of the most potent political bloc in France, Le Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties...
Thus a blessing on a subtly sublimated form of falsity circulates throughout the country. With this publicity, Mark Twain's school of artistic lying has support in its war against prudish cherry trees. Apparently the hatchet is no vital weapon with which to attack the elastic spirit of falsehood. The ghost of Ananias may yet take corporeal form to lead the genial forces of fabrication...
Unfortunately this strike did not have the backing of any established union. Therefore the question of funds is vital and grows more so as the ranks swell. Money is coming in in contributions of all sizes from unions, organizations and individuals all over the country. By means of this each family is given $5 to $10 a week in food and clothing through the relief stores. This pittance is barely enough to keep them alive but their spirit is indomitable. The ranks realize that this struggle means either life or death to them and after eight weeks they show...
There can be no question about the University's pressing requirement for unrestricted funds. In every department money is needed for assistance and equipment, such as to obtain the maximum of productivity and the minimum of administrative work for the ablest teachers and investigators. This is the one vital need of the University. According as it is measurably met or not, the prestige of Harvard is maintained or lost...