Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cause for Confusion. No one denied that any industrial stoppage was bad, in the critical spring of 1941, and especially bad when it occurred in a vital centre. Looking for a cure, men looked for causes, tried to sort them out and define them...
Back fired an answer from the President, who has known his own mind about development of the St. Lawrence for some 30 years: "Construction should commence at the earliest possible moment"; the U. S. Government regarded the project as "a matter of vital necessity." He said that the opening of the St. Lawrence deep waterway as an outlet for naval and cargo ships to be built in Great Lakes shipyards would be just the opposite of a diversion of funds and resources from defense; that a long-drawn-out war would demand building "several times" as many shipyards...
...physical city tamed too. Gothic extravagance yielded to gracious Georgian façades; Disraeli snorted over London's architectural insipidity. The criminals, the riffraff and the poor were vital; the rest of the nation was one sallow hunk of middle-class mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been a traffic problem, "scorchers" on bicycles were called a public menace. The last gold sovereigns of England sang on the counters of World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps...
Decentralization Vital...
...British forces are striking upon Harar in a determined drive to cut the vital Addis Ababa-Djihouti railroad...