Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There can be only one answer to the Harvard War Memorial question: a vital structure, where the living can, indeed, dedicate themselves, nurturing their bodies with its materials and their minds and souls with what it stands for... E. A. Callanan, Jr. 2E.T.S...
...goal of the researchers is that pupils will gradually come to think of democracy as a vital force in their lives. The group feels that "all students should develop an interest in political matters and come to think of Barouches and Marshalls as human beings like Washington and Lincoln...
Devil's Disciple. Butler invaded science and theology with the same contumacious temerity. He denied both the Crucifixion and Resurrection; nonetheless, he believed in "God"-a Butler-made vital spirit of whom he Shavianly said: "God is not so white as he is painted, and he gets on better with the Devil than people think." Like Carl Jung, he believed in a collective unconscious-an inborn "memory" of human habit and behavior handed down through the generations. The art of living, he held, was to keep a tricky but common-sensical balance between this vital inheritance and the equally...
What is the aim to be sought in creating a memorial? The feeling which should be sought is one of reflex action on the spirit of the beholder, to awaken a vital, motivating incentive to higher and nobler sacrificial patriotic living. The utilitarian type, with its appeal chiefly to the physical senses, fails completely to touch the realm of the spirit. Is there any more "practical" or more "useful" ambition than to aim to consummate a memorial so designed and so executed as to keep over before the senses of passers-by the devotion to duty of those we seek...
...measurements that brought Miss Laughton the modern beauty prize are the same the ancients appreciated. HTW's Helen distributes 143 pounds over 5 ft., 10 in. Her vital statistics are 36"-26"-36," reading from top to bottom...