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Word: vitalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unanimously urge," the letter continues, "the necessity of a clear recognition that the emergency grows more rather than less grave as the days pass. We urge that all appropriate measures be taken to advance the defense program, and increase the production of vital supplies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Defense Group Urges FDR Accelerate Country's Production | 12/18/1940 | See Source »

...pointed out the distinction between "undernourishment, or deficiency in calorie intake, and malnutrition, or deficiency in proteins, vitamins, and minerals," remarking that the more vital problem is to maintain the quality of the national diet, especially in regard to vitamin content, in order to "promote vigor, resistance to disease, and a high morale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOD SUPPLY IS NOT A VITAL WAR ISSUE, EXPERT MAINTAINS IN BUSINESS REVIEW | 12/18/1940 | See Source »

Aboard the Southern Cross, yacht of Swedish Tycoon Axel L. Wenner-Gren, the Governor of the Bahamas and his lady this week set sail from Nassau to Miami. Reason: Her Grace needed an operation to relieve an apical infection of a non-vital molar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: Voyage | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

There are some 400,000 "little businesses" in the U. S. (assets of $1,000,060 or less). Many of the odds & ends they make are vital to the U. S. economy; many are merely pleasant. For many of these little businesses World War II has been a shot in the arm. Blockade and counter-blockade have cut off scores of Europe's odds & ends, and U. S. little business has rushed in to fill the demand. Some owe a new product, some their whole business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Blockade Benison | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...between true and not true with probabilities. A four-valued logic would permit: true, probably true, possibly true, not true. (The word "and" then acquires 14.348,907 distinct meanings.*) Such logic is not speculative nonsense but a tool urgently needed, for example, by atom-studying physicists. It is also vital in comprehending the relativity-universe prescribed by the theory of emergent evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking About Thinking | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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