Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief "proposal" was an impassioned sales talk for the Army's pet system of State Capitalism. "Japan's economic system," it harangued, "creates class differences, enables the few to hoard wealth, causes poverty and unemployment, and . . . seriously restricts the national budget so that even the most vital needs of national defense are not attainable. ... It is desirable for the people to abandon the selfish, individualistic economic sense, to awaken to moral principles and to hasten to establish an economy embodying the Empire's ideals [i. e., a military dictatorship]. The military . . . would cultivate the spirit of personal...
...problem of Austria, biggest and most vital in all Europe, was deftly sidetracked. Italy had a plan which on inspection would have given her practically the same control over Austria that she now has over Albania. Vociferously France's Louis Barthou roared protests. Britain refused to sign anything that might mean military intervention. The best that could be wangled was a joint statement by France, Britain, and Italy reaffirming their intention of preserving Austrian independence...
...vague rumors of the existence of such a place but had not had sufficient time and ambition to go down and visit it until the other day when we had a free morning and Professor Lake failed to show up at English 35a. We were shown all the vital documents of the University since the 1640's carefully locked up in fireproof cases and spent the next two hours reading about the activities of colonial Harvard...
...unfortunate that the Rhodes Scholarship is awarded according to geographical location and not in regard to population distribution. Even if an amendment to the Rhodes Trust is necessary, some plan should be adopted to make a more uniform selection of men. Also, men should be nominated who have a vital interest in pursuing research in one intellectual field and not in mere generalization and the acquisition of a superficial dilettantism...
Instituting a policy that aims at supplementing work done in the regular courses of the department, the division of Government announced in its latest divisional pamphlet a series of lectures to be given from time to time on topics of vital interest not only to students of political science but also to students interested in would affairs and problems. A long-felt need for the unbiased and scholarly treatment of international political problems will thus be fulfilled and the formal education of students along these lines will be supplemented by informal talks unhampered by the limitations imposed by class room...