Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donham does not understand that though the basic differences between Hearst's and other papers may be small in number, they are immense in significance. For Mr. Hearst and others cannot seen to realize that the vital need of the modern world is tolerance towards all peoples and all creeds. For all his faith in democracy, Hearst will stop at nothing to suppress anything un-American. In one breath he excoriates the man who hints at foreign entanglements, and in another be conducts an anti-Japanese campaign that bids fair...
Rediscount rates are economic facts of little significance to the layman. Nonetheless, they are of vital importance. The controversy over the rate manipulations of the Federal Reserve Board in the summer and early fall of 1929 and its relation to the stock-market crash still rages. Thus news that the Bank of France has raised its rate of interest from 2 1-2 to 4 per cent, while apparently merely one more fact for statisticians and graph-makers, may conceivably have drastic repercussions...
...vital points may be deduced from the Tory tactics of the Physics Department. First, that Harvard is trading upon its tradition in order to progress without nurturing it; second, that the teaching function of the tutors in the field of the sciences is consciously put into the hands of rabid specialists...
France was as anxious to keep Italy from a too elaborate, too expensive campaign in Abyssinia for another reason. Keeping Nazi Germany from absorbing Austria and growing too big is a vital point in France's foreign policy. Italy long ago undertook to do that chore for her. With her own vivid memories of the expenses and difficulties of an African campaign, France was frightened last week that if Italy were once embarked on an Abyssinian campaign she would be forced to send so many troops to Africa that Adolf Hitler would have the chance of a lifetime...
...proud of his parliamentary astuteness, knew well enough that there were four to six pro-Bonus Senators, willing to vote for the "sound" Vinson Bill who would not vote for the Patman (greenback) Bill. He knew further that those extra four to six votes would probably be vital when the time came to override a Presidential veto. But Senators Long and Elmer Thomas did not care nor did Commander Van Zandt...