Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another chance for its life lies in the Supreme Court decisions. If, by the end of the month, the Court should sustain certain vital sections of the NRA now under examination, Mr. Roosevelt probably will be able to force the Senate to comply with his wishes. In passing, one cannot help suggesting that now when time is such a precious element in the fate of the Blue Eagle, the President may not look on Professor Frankfurter with too fond feelings. It was the latter's advice that major court tests of the NRA be delayed. But that was when...
...great honor to receive this award,--a particular honor to receive a medal from the Ford Hall Forum, an institution which for more than twenty years, has been in the words of Calvin Coolidge, 'a vital influence in Boston and a good example for other communities...
...Winthrop each undefeated and each having three games to play. It appears that no other team can enter into the running in this competition. Kirkland House has entered no team in this league. Wednesday Lowell House beat Eliot, and yesterday Lowell beat Dunster, but these games make no vital difference to the leaders...
...Henri Bergson's sense of motion and change led to the élan vital theory which presents a mysterious, inward, upsurging force as the driving influence of evolution. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck propagated a theory that acquired characteristics could be inherited. Most modern students of evolution take little stock in either Bergsonism or Lamarckism. Yet last week Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, presented a view which seemed to flirt with both. Whereas primitive organisms are bundles of inherited reaction patterns and higher animals are resultants of heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes...
Amid a great swirl of dust little Lindsborg (pop. 2,016) became once again last week the most vital music centre in Kansas. From eleven States visitors poured into the town, fairly fought for parking space. The attraction was Lindsborg's longtime specialty: Handel's Messiah, performed by 500 local choristers, most of them farmers, storekeepers, mechanics, housewives, cooks...