Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also in the Interior Department was to be an Assistant Secretary for Education, Health & Recreation. Under him would be grouped that department's bureaus of Education, Indian Affairs and National Parks and, in addition, the Public Health Service from the Treasury and the Division of Vital Statistics from the Department of Commerce...
...House of Commons crusty Tories raised a cheer when Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Captain Anthony Eden boomed that "His Majesty's Government would not hesitate, in case of necessity, to take all legitimate measures to protect its vital interests." In Teheran the arrival of Britain's words-via British Wireless News Agency-caused such official consternation that Persian newspapers were forbidden to print them and special couriers were rushed off to Reza Shah Pahlevi who was still in Mazanderan applauding superb Turkoman horseflesh and horsemanship...
...their Vitamin D from the great quantities of fish which they eat. Fish oils contain abundant quantities of Vitamin D (TIME. Dec. 12). "None of the usual foods supply enough of Vitamin D," says Johns Hopkins' Professor Elmer Verner McCollum. who in 1922 announced the existence and vital importance of this vitamin...
...most of its aspects the effervescence of adolescent enthusiasm fills a vital need in this mundane world. The picture of several hundred close-cropped heads milling around a few precious yards of painted wood assures the amused alumnus in double Q that youth has not lost its vigorous fling for modified mayhem. But the Subway riots during the hockey season call forth from administrators and the press sharp distinctions between energetic fun and the disregard for the property and personal rights of non-combatants...
...Cabinet circles Reza Shah Pahlevi's action was called second in importance only to the question whether Great Britain would make her Dec. 15 debt payment to the U. S. As every Englishman knows, the oil resources of Anglo-Persian-strategically located between India and Britain-are vital to the Admiralty, must be retained at any cost...