Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birmingham, Ala., Epheus and Mary Thomas named their daughter Laxative. Other names given to Negro children, as revealed by 'the Bureau of Vital Statistics: Rosy & Posy (twins), Arcola, Miserable, Roach, Zenobia, Poindexter, Diplomj, Nebuchadnezzar, Mumps, Cleopatra, Love Lycurgus, Measles, Cleop, Island, Moraphine, Shylock, Phemia Initia, Shinola, Truthie, Listerine, Providentia, Etoy, Zeller, Delphine-Richlene, Arcadia, Zebedee, Charity, Orestee-Lennion, Ishman-Julius, Friendly James, Pearlean, Amorous, Dimples, Violin, Mystic Kate, Ivory White, Ivory Shivers...
...Editor, and Teacher, his kindly simplicity and charm are remembered long after English 41 fades into the dimly forgotten. Dr. Hauptmann, German dramatist and playwright, is equally qualified to speak in this field. As an historian, novelist, and philosopher of history, Goethe spanned past and present and still raises vital issues in the modern world. Societies of commemoration, lectures, and prizes could be, and have been, devoted to less worthy ends than that of keeping alive his work...
Paramount fact: more than two thirds of the whole sown area of the Soviet Union is not only not in the hands of kulak households, but it is not even in the hands of poor peasant households. This vast and vital two thirds now consists of: 1) State farms or 2) collective farms worked cooperatively by groups of peasants under State supervision...
...York's Museum of Modern Art stepped a little beyond the business of showing pictures to people last week. It attacked a vital modern problem. Under the auspices of an imposing list of patrons, presented the largest and most complete showing of the works of modern architects working in what has come to be known as the International Style. Each of these men has made a contribution toward the serious housing problem of the U. S. A potent statement of the problem appeared in the February issue of FORTUNE...
...present display of the Dreyfus Collection, a selection of great works of art that reflect so completely the age that produced them. No less important than the Renaissance Humanists' discovery of classical antiquity was their discovery of man. In no other period was there such a vital interest in the phenomenon of the human personality, and so it is not surprising to find that the Italian sculptors represented in the Fogg Museum have mirrored the multiple facets of that interest in their works. The arrogance and strength of the Renaissance prince speaks in Verrocchio's Giuliano dei Medici, the refinement...