Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past has this idea been envisaged, only to fade into semi-oblivion; dimmed by delay, criticism and the force of more pressing problems. Through the depression years, when millions were relying on alms for life, bread and medical care, the idea of social insurance loomed ever higher as a vital need when the time should present itself for the country's reorganization. Though the proverbial horse had fled, it seemed better to lock the door once again than to forget entirely and to move on in willful blindness. Yet the idea then seemed too large, too radical...
Congratulations on the November 19th editorial on the Spanish situation entitled "Brothers' Blood". It is one of the few editorials that have appeared in the Crimson that show a real understanding and intelligent interpretation of any world political situation . . . More vital news and editorials of this kind will help make the Crimson more than just a notice column. J. Olrich...
...Brahms Fourth, wherein New York Times Critic Olin Downes discovered "virility, grip, lyrical opulence, and on occasion the impact of the bear's paw." Said the New York Herald Tribune's, Lawrence Oilman: "He has disclosed himself as a musician of taste and fire and intensity, electric, vital, sensitive, dynamic, experienced; as an artist who knows his way among the scores he elects to set before us, who has mastered not only his temperament but his trade...
...typical of the spirit of Harvard's past that the leaders who breathed life into the Tercentenary exercises were thinking not so much of resting on laurel's already won, but of meeting today's challenge to higher education and of making the Harvard of the future a vital center of learning in America...
...London, businessmen with a monetary stake in the Coronation, such as hotel-men, makers of Coronation mugs and bunting, etc., grew frantic at their inability to find in British papers last week news absolutely vital to their private business. Many of them had Manhattan papers read back to them by transatlantic telephone. London insurance brokers were suddenly swamped with an avalanche of customers. While $500 of insurance against postponement of the Coronation could at first be had for $20, latecomers were obliged to pay $130. Finally the market became so top-heavy that brokers were unwilling to take...