Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stages- first, to get many hundreds of thousands of the unemployed back on the payroll by snowfall; and second, to plan for a better future for the longer pull. . . . As in the great crisis of the World War. it puts a whole people to the simple but vital test: Must we go on in many groping, disorganized, separate units to defeat, or shall we move as one great team to victory...
...spring the Los Angeles Philharmonic has been scouting around for a strong, vital conductor who would build up the orchestra's patronage against the season of 1933-34 when Copperheir William Andrews Clark Jr. has announced that he will no longer stand its deficits. Last week Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic drive rebounded to Los Angeles' benefit. As soon as Conductor Otto Klemperer was kicked out of the Berlin State Opera where his contract had four more years to run, Los Angeles quickly signed...
Last week's analysis by the U. S. Census Bureau of New York State's 1932 vital statistics showed that Utica is the only large city in the State where the birth rate increased last year (up to 17.9 in 1932 from 17.7 in 1931 per 1,000 population). New York City's ratio declined to 15.3 from 16.2 per 1,000, worried realtors and landlords who depend on population increases...
...clear that no adult judgment of Japan's conduct can be made until the charges that she bribed the revolting Chinese governments are either substantiated or dispelled. Granting, for the sake of argument, that treaties with an overturned and incomplete government are merely academic in the face of a vital threat to national safety, there is still a certain overzealous arrogance in Japan's foreign policy which even Mr. Kawakami's skill can not explain away. The present book deals also with the structure and problems of the new government of Manchoukuo, and expresses the pious hope that Chinese reorganization...
...never been unfaithful to his wife and never wanted to be. Colin Clive is the faithful husband and Miss Hepburn is the woman. It is not surprising that they should be attracted to one another and develop an acquaintance. When this acquaintance begins an irresistible progress toward a more vital relationship it sets the scene for a struggle between will and emotion. The striking feature of this struggle in "Christopher Strong," is that it occurs in the minds of two individuals of high intellectual and moral calibre. Temptation, in the motion pictures, is usually depicted as assailing victims whose week...