Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sample of the diplomatic arguments used: Japan's Chief Delegate, Naotake Sato at a recent, vital session of the Preparatory Commission...
...summing up his talk he said "the first reason, then, for the changed attitude toward higher mathematics is the enormous extension of its usefulness in practical human affairs. The second reason for the new popularity of mathematics is more vital and powerful. Mathematics is not only useful; it is extremely beautiful. The beauty of a mathematical result is the fundamental motive for its pursuit. Every creative mathematician is essentially a creative artist...
...Nationalist [Gandhite] movement is universal throughout India . . . vital need of satisfying the aspirations of India as a whole...
...ears. Police and factory owners paid little attention. From Yokohama came a message: Emperor Hirohito would return to Tokyo at the week's end, would almost certainly pass the Tanabe-topped chimney on his way to the palace. Instantly the removal of Chimney Sitter Tanabe became of vital importance. The Emperor of Japan is accounted divine, the Son of Heaven. For any one to look down on him is not only a crime but, worse than that, a sacrilege...
Said Dr. Lewis Perry, Exeter's principal: "It is the greatest opportunity that has ever come to any secondary school in the world. . . . The preparatory school must now prepare its students for vital intellectual life in college...