Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flanked by pontifical old Henry Berenger, Chairman of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and kinetic Deputy Paul Bastid, the Chamber's Foreign Affairs Chairman. Though French public opinion remained friendly to Italy last week it also remained pacifist and continued to regard the League as a vital strut in the structure of Security-in France a word more magic than Peace...
...embattled nations were at the front, "an increased facility of reproducing themselves was afforded to the weaklings." Thus the present generation of post-War youth is to be regarded generally askance, thinks Dr. Frick, and Nazi eugenists' plans for breeding Germans like prize cattle are especially vital. In prompt agreement, Dr. Knud A. Wieth-Knudsen, Norway's eugenist at the Congress, cried: "The intellectual currents which have dominated Scandinavian countries for the past 50 years?namely Liberalism, Radicalism and Feminism?are to blame for the decreasing birth rate in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Improvement can only be expected from...
...being visualized by thinking of Ethiopia, which is roughly round in shape, as the face of a watch. Then all of Ethiopia covered by a minute hand as it sweeps around from 12 to 8 is covered by the Rickett Concession. Not in this area is Lake Tana, vital water source of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On the imaginary watch, Tana is at the tip of the hour hand...
...absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned to quit his peculiarly vital desk-job as Minister of Press & Propaganda to become a flying...
Indians while admitting that in the provinces natives will at once have somewhat greater freedom, denounce the Constitution as "Sheer sham!" because all vital powers are reserved to the Viceroy, thus permitting Britain to keep India hog-tied indefinitely...