Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palembang lies near the center of southern Sumatra. Entrenched there, the Jap could drive on to the extreme southern tip, immobilizing the Dutch forces scattered through central and northern Sumatra. From the island's western coast he would have further command of the Indian Ocean and its vital routes (see p. 20). Only Sunda Strait would lie between the invader and Java...
...weight and vigor of the German Panzer divisions, which at vital moments took possession of the battlefields so that they could repair their damaged tanks-and ours...
Those who believe it is "vital that we take no thought for the morrow" are as blind as the selfish senators of 1920 who savagely ripped the staging from under Wilson's plans and let the whole structure of Versailles collapse like a house of cards. The trouble with 1920 was that the obsolete principles of Washington's Farewell Address still guided the thinking of our leaders. The universities are to blame for projecting these principles into the post...
...Engineering Drawing is a vital defense course, and the demand for engineering draftsmen is particularly acute," Charles J. Walsh, demonstrator in Engineering Drawing, emphasized last night in a radio address. "The defense industries desperately need draftsmen to man the expanding arm plants...
...raid on Soerabaja--the third major assault on this vital base--cost the Nipponese five bombers out of 21 sent over...