Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt is my leader, my commander-in-chief. In his presence, before this multitude and with the stars of heaven* to bear witness to my covenant, I renew the pledge of fealty I gave four years ago." The vital radio hour of 10 p. m. was so close at hand that Senator Robinson cut his notification to Mr. Roosevelt down to two sentences: "Mr. President, it should be a matter of gratification and pardonable pride for you to know. . . . Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States...
...Provost to conduct the faculty's business with the Administration, established a single board of admissions and a common freshman year, with a separate freshman faculty, for "Sheff" and "Ac." Simple and sensible though these reforms seemed to outsiders, they cut deep into Yale's vital fabric of traditions, left a mass of supersensitive and unsutured ganglions. At that point, Yale's Grand Old Man, Arthur Twining Hadley, resigned the Presidency, thus leaving Yale not only suffering from postoperative shock, but without an attendant...
...planning,--at least from my point of view. The fact that a highway can be made by a municipality or a state or a nation does not alter the fact that it is an element in city planning. No institution in this country has stuck so closely, to this vital subject as the Harvard School...
...central roles Dennis King and Edith Barrett achieve performances of truly outstanding skill. Mr. King leads a romantically vital touch to his Parnell which makes the utter devotion of Mrs. O'Shea and the Irish Party thoroughly credible. Miss Barrett has a most appealing presence and performs with a sympathetic restraint which quite overbalance her slightly Philadelphia acoant...
...Freight Lines, largest U. S. truck operator (TIME, Sept. 2), explained to an Interstate Commerce Commissioner why it wished to buy Seaboard Freight Lines, New England's largest operator, for $250,000. In opposition, all New England's major railroads declared that the plan would effect no vital economies, was not in the best public interest...