Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gulf and resumed raiding. Sweden last month resumed convoying. As of this week no German coal or coke had reached Sweden for ten days and Swedish papers warned that none could be expected for another ten. The United Nations had scored some success in hitting at Hitler's vital supply lines...
...emphasized the vital importance of individual civilian warfare, which he learned as a member of the poorly equipped Spanish Republican Army. He saw the difficulties unarmed people face in the mechanized Italian and German units and based his advice on tank and street-fighting experience gained in Madrid when that city was under seige...
...German armored columns as they did in last year's battles. But last week there were differences, and the differences favored the Germans. When the Red soldiers found a group of German tanks, they also found German artillery and mortars, bunched to answer the Russian fire. And, in vital sectors, Moscow had to admit that, for all the Red Army's brilliant artillery and anti-tank tactics, for all its carefully devised defense-in-depth, the Germans with their composite columns outnumbered the Russians in men and weapons. Ominous, too, was Moscow's statement that...
Mighty Gut. A termite digests cellulose with the help of the swarms of protozoa (one-celled animals) which teem in its guts. Since termites reduce cellulose (the toughest part of plants) to humus and provide food for new plants, their destruction of wood is really a vital part of the vegetative cycle of growth and decay...
...those who actually signed up in the course, it seems hardly necessary to reemphasize the vital importance of first aid training. The elements of first aid should be common knowledge in normal times. No one can afford to be without them today. The WSC and the Red Cross have decided to offer students another chance for this training, and are making a recanvass of those who signed up. At least one course will begin on Monday. Perhaps the response today and tomorrow will show that Harvard men, too, are fighting this...