Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action. There is the gravest doubt, however, that the law was originally intended to exclude the vacation periods from the calculation. From 1917 until this present action the interpretation of the courts has favored their inclusion. But aside from this aspect, it is more important to note the vital stupidity inherent in the presumption that the caliber of a man's medical training can be even partially classified by measuring the number of weeks which he has studied...
After cutting from under every German these vital parts of his Constitution, the President fixed Death as the penalty for attempting to secure or disclosing important military secrets. Imprisonment for ten years was provided for transmitting to foreign governments "news, even if false, which should be kept secret in the interests of the Reich." Finally foreign correspondents in Germany were gagged with the threat of "not less than three months imprisonment" for transmitting abroad "news which should be kept from foreign governments, even if false...
...unto itself-has proved utterly empty and disastrous. The practice of the half-insane policy of economic isolation during the past ten years by America and the world is the largest single underlying cause of the present world panic. . . . Economic disarmament and military disarmament are patently the two most vital and outstanding factors in business recovery...
...Literature should be vital in relation to its own period, not that there is no difference of value between lasting and ephemeral works. If the literature of the future is indifferent to the past, then we must be indifferent to the future...
...wishes that a change of Administration might come when everything is quiet internally and externally. But world events do not wait on American presidential elections. The Democrats come into office at a time of world crisis and the new men whom they appoint must deal instantly with questions of vital interest to our country. Let us hope that they may be wise men, so conscious of their own lack of intimate knowledge of these questions that they will act conservatively, for the moment at least, strictly along the lines of traditional American foreign policy which is neither Democratic nor Republican...