Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lindley: "Any nomination which creates a political ruckus in which no vital question of policy is at stake must be regarded as a political mistake...
...knock out or otherwise neutralize that sub fleet, victory on land in this global war will be incalculably remote. The tide did not turn in World War I until Germany's U-boats were beaten and the ocean supply lines cleared. The ocean supply lines are even more vital to victory in World...
...borne fruit. Most important wartime petroleum by-product is toluene, the basis of TNT (trinitrotoluene) which the industry now provides at many times the scale of World War I when it was derived from coal. Another critical petroleum derivative is butadiene, basis for synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 30). Vital to the war, derivates of petroleum may be equally important in the post-war era. Just as research in coal by-products gave birth after World War I to a whole new series of peacetime industries-plastics, solvents, lacquers, synthetic fabrics-so the cheap plentiful toluene derived from petroleum...
Chain broadcasting is of such vital public consequence and public interest that it should be a business in and of itself, and disassociated from any other business...
...laymen who have more vital things to think about and can take their music or leave it, this guerilla warfare among the critics isn't very enlightening. Perhaps, if you read one paper or magazine long enough, you begin to catch on to what is going on and enjoy the fun. As the situation stands now, we have the critics all trying to work up a football-rally attitude toward orchestras, conductors, and even composers. "Time" magazine, for instance, loves to juggle the "Mid-Western league" against the "Eastern league," and play one conductor off against another as if American...