Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burden rests on 168 young men who have no permanent appointments. When Plan B was put into operation in 1935 it was already urged that permanent members be used instead of these harassed young doctorial thesis writers. Surely in a total Faculty of nearly 1800 not all are doing vital defense or special research jobs, and with the number of graduate students greatly depleted, many older professors have more free time than usual. Certainly no temperamental reasons, no fondness for lecture desks should come before the tutorial system in this emergency. Perhaps the most glaring flaw in the tutorial teaching...
...glint of the copper bug-barriers caught the metal-hungry eye of Army men commandeering vital materials for industry, and the screens were melted up. Veterans of past insect wars recommend mosquito-netting canopies for the beds of those who would sleep in peace...
...factors: the men The Fogg has produced and the men that have produced The Fogg. Through it courses, facilities, and above all its connection with the Harvard student body, The Fogg has been able to develop a host of professional and amateur experts who have been playing a vital role in art in America for the last quarter of a century...
From Indo-China the Jap took a vital supply of rice and minerals; from Malaya, Java. Sumatra he got rubber; in Borneo he hastened repair of blown-up oil wells; from the Philippines and the erstwhile Dutch islands his diet was sweetened with sugar; from China he got cotton and high-grade bituminous coal. Japanese sources reported that in Java great Japanese banks (Yokohama Specie Bank, Bank of Taiwan) were already exceedingly active. The Jap's New Order in Asia was potentially one of the richest economic units in the world; already the Japanese felt heady enough to discourage...
...Latin American route mileage increased 15%, miles flown 34%. With shipping scarcer, Pan Am's 60 weekly flights south from the U.S. are more & more vital to hemisphere transport...