Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vital nucleus light of our four years...
...Trade Union Fellows are men who, because of their backgrounds, are a strikingly new feature in the University scene. In spite of their unique background and, perhaps, because of it, the men have succeeded in finding their place in the University picture as vital assets in the student body. Three of the Fellows have brought their wives to Cambridge and one lives in Boston. The other nine have become familiar figures around the Houses and across the Charles. Two make their homes in Adams, two in Dunster, and five in the Business School dormitories...
British First Army lurched a few miles ahead. On Christmas Eve regiments of Guards fought a violent hand-to-hand battle for a "vital" hill, were thrown back twice by German counterattacks but finally, on Christmas morning, they charged up the hill again, captured the position...
Trains waited at way stations five to 20 minutes while mountains of mail sacks, tons of parcel post were transferred on windswept platforms. At some stations mail loads were 75% greater than last year. Meanwhile the heroic railroads kept a firm grip on the vital flow of war freight moving to the dark, silent ships at icy ports, switched the daily average of 6,000 carloads of supplies to U.S. camps and plants...
...Indian All-Parties conference at Allahabad issued a stiff statement: "Judging by the Government's industrial policy during the war and the failure to provide the people with sufficient food at reasonable prices, it has failed in vital matters affecting the nation in this crisis." Present at the conference was moderate Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru. When a United Nations enthusiast like Sir Tej supports such a statement, things must be worse than usual...