Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacking TIME'S excellent reporting, but feel that the following sentiments cannot go unexpressed. When one reflects just how vital a thing language is, one realizes that, after all, this is serious...
EZRA Pound's selection, not yet published in America, of what he deems the most vital in contemporary Angle-American poetry is likely to provoke controversy, for Pound has always been a stormy petrel in the arts, and both his criticism and his poetry possess an incisiveness that has been regarded by some as bellicose. One should not be misled by the man's egotism. Although he loses no opportunity to remind his readers of his special merits, Pound has been an important force in Anglo-American literature. His innovations have been genuine improvements in the technique of poetry...
...outrageously biased in favor of the employer in most disputes, but in this; that the process of mediation will be stepped up to something more than the snailspace which is causing such widespread disillusion with the entire scheme of dispute-settlement. In strikes, the element of time is absolutely vital to the union involved; and delay in arbitration may quash the walk-out more surely, more disappointingly than an army of thug-scabs...
...Mayor Curley to the Secretaryship of the Navy the other evening, we were glad to see that they had not lost, however grim, their sense of humor. While that cabinet position assumed somewhat of an honorary nature with its last Republican incumbent, it has always been a vital cog in the administration, especially today with war a good deal closer around the corner than prosperity. It has also been one of the few secretaryships about which there have risen no wraiths of corruption. Let us examine genial Mr. Curley's qualifications...
...Pinchot, went back to Susquehanna to fight in earnest. He urged his readers to pay only the old rates when they got their bills from the water company. When the water company shut off the supply, he argued that the company had no right to deprive citizens of a vital necessity. Susquehanna citizens took to standing on shutoff boxes to prevent water company agents from closing the valves...