Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Larger families, with children properly spaced, "so that the young might learn in the family, the most vital social unit, how to get along with other children...
...Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. suggested that the first constructive step towards combatting witch hunts while preserving security would be to differentiate "between the rights of an American citizen and the rights of a government employe in a security agency." To make the teaching profession seem to bear a vital relationship to government security would be a small task for experienced red-baiters. If it is to be effective, opposition to the Barnes bill must straightjacket this sort of political sleight-of-hand...
...important does he become that he assumes a par with the RAF: winged creatures all. Bird lovers everywhere, farmers or ornithologists, forget the War and join the Pipit's Cause; and the blood, sweat and tears shed to protect the specimen for future science are convincing earmarks of a vital struggle. The dangers of disturbing tanks and black-faced egg-stealers are treated with all the consideration accorded the Dieppe incident, yet the contrast of War vs. Pipit is handled so skillfully that realism is never misplaced...
...National Office of Vital Statistics reported two new alltime records: 2,285,539 U.S. marriages and 613,400 divorces in 1946. This was six times as many marriages and 60 times as many divorces as were reported in the postwar year...
...excepting those men endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association, conducting his own campaign, there has been no concerted effort to overcome voter inertia or crystallize important issues for the benefit of the electorate. The race for ballots seems to be diffused towards class bigotry and vicious recrimination while the vital questions remain securely muzzled...