Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the worst years of the Japanese war had China faced a prospect so bitter. The Communist autumn offensive had overwhelmed the Nationalists in Manchuria; the vital North China corridor was under heavy attack. For the second time in a generation, a great Nationalist retreat was under way. Isolated outposts would now be evacuated and lines shortened to save men and materiel for a long war of attrition...
...Self Portrait" of 1648 is a highlight in the section on portraiture and in one example of the self-portraiture which was a vital force in the artist's life. Rembrandt did his own portrait at least twice a year, an unparalleled record...
...State Marshall and other prominent men stumbling all over themselves to get on the right side of Spain's midget despot, General Francisco Franco. The new love affair was concentrated power politics. Franco wanted readmission to the family of nations. He offered the United States access to the vital Spanish Peninsula and the use of his Moorish troops in return. While the deal is strategically unassailable, it is morally indefensible, for no two nations on the face of the earth are so diametrically opposed as Spain and the United States...
...delegation has always been, except for Mr. Fisher, and still is agreed that the DP project is far more vital than any other project. Contrary to your story, the delegation was informed at its first meeting (by myself) that, with far greater facilities than Harvard's a national organization was being set up with the backing of NSA, NICC, the Newman Clubs, Billel, and WSSF to take care of student DP's. Harvard NSA offered, and still offers to help with the national project in any way requested...
...such an ordeal, however, seems to dissuade the Saltonstall Committee from undertaking a comparable task, and it will place a decidedly modest proposal before the Associated Harvard Clubs on Friday. To realize a more adequate tribute would require years and determination. But that is the way Harvard gets a vital memorial...