Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem of repetition of school-work in the freshman year is still a vital question which confronts the university. Each year men enter the freshman class educated far beyond its limitations. Each year they are held back, made to cover the same ground and in so doing they lose much of the value of the first year at college...
Imperialism is the eternal and immutable law of life. It is, at bottom, nothing other than the need, the desire and the will to expansion which every individual, and every live and vital people, possesses...
...aside is her claim that she did not violate the Kellogg Pact. In adhering to the Pact she claims the same reservations as were made by Britain, in effect that the Pact does not bind where the signatory is obliged to take measures in one of its "spheres of vital interest." Absurd on its face but capable of being upheld years hence by some august tribunal of international lawyers is Italy's claim that the Pact, as interpreted by onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg permits almost any act of "self defense" and that Italy did not formally...
...vital for China's future are the fleets of the Western Powers was demonstrated last week in Southeast China, far from the land front of Japanese expansion but thoroughly vulnerable by sea. Three weeks ago the Japanese flagship Tatsuta and ten destroyers steamed into Swatow to force Chinese customs officials to yield up a seized Japanese cargo of rice on which petty provincial taxes had not been paid (TIME, Oct. 14). With set faces, the Japanese Navy officers demanded restitution, apologies, punishment of Canton customs men, abolition of the annoying duties and the right of Japanese to trade...
Another thoroughly vital figure who finds himself appalled by irrepressible Billy Rose is Playwright MacArthur, husband of Actress Helen Hayes. Rollicking around rehearsals last week Mr. MacArthur greeted Angel Whitney with "Hello, sucker!" every time they met, forecast: "This thing is either going to be the most fabulous success or the most fantastic failure that ever hit New York...