Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Benito Mussolini seemed so deeply committed to the big military job of maintaining Austria's independence against Germany that, on that issue and certain others vital to Adolf Hitler, suave British diplomatists could flirt politely with Berlin's Nazis, leaving Italy to bear the brunt of German wrath. By last week Il Duce had all Europe guessing whether he and Der Führer may not soon get together in a deal as to Austria's future, and in London the welkin rang with reverberations of anti-British editorials splashed out in Rome...
...Baldwin was ready last week to step out candidly as Prime Minister. He has lived all this while at No. 11 Downing St., next door to Prime Minister MacDonald. Holding the sinecure called Lord President of the Council, he has in fact made the National Government's most vital pronouncements, such as his famed "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week Mr. Baldwin, arrayed by his valet for audience with the King-Emperor, waited serenely while George V in Buckingham Palace had a nice long tea with James Ramsay MacDonald...
...companies. American silver-buying drained China of her silver, which froze credits, which in turn is paralyzing business." The Chinese Government, having begged and implored President Roosevelt for months to stop kiting the price of silver, desperately imposed the death penalty on Chinese caught smuggling out the vital metal-to sell it abroad at "Roosevelt prices." Last week the U. S. President did something for China, nominated U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson for the newly-created post of Ambassador...
...tutor, he misses a serious proportion of the good which the College has to offer him. Limitation not amplification of the number of tutees is a necessary means to insure success for the system. Definite regulation of the kind and amount of work which tutors must do is a vital prerequisite. This regulation, as well as greater care in the selection of men who are to become tutors is to a great extent the responsibility of the various departments. Reorganization costs money, more conscientious attention to the needs of undergraduates under the tutorial system may be increasingly expensive. Here again...
...turn its attention to the problem of determining what criteria should be adopted to judge a man's fitness to enter into the broad field that the Freshman year is so properly becoming. Certainly some other standards than mere grades on College Boards must be selected. The problem is vital, and will take great pains to solve. In many ways it is a cause for wonder that with scholastic standards as diverse as they are in different sections of the United States there are not less misfits in each Freshmen class. That there are so few is a tribute...