Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just as vital to the country's defense will be the training of workers in war industries. The U. S. Office of Education, which has long conducted a program of vocational training, annually turns out an approximate 500,000 men skilled as lathe operators, welders, aircraft mechanics, machinists, sheet metal workers, etc. The President wants 750,000 more workers added to the program. There are already 1,030 schools, which could add late evening and night time classes, turn out 1,250,000 skilled workers a year...
Most desirable to Italy are Egypt and the Suez Canal, the one rich in cotton, the other vital to reach Italy's present holdings in eastern Africa. Britain got sole sway over Egypt (which both Rome and Napoleon held in their day) in 1882 when France and Italy declined to share the expense of pacifying the country after it revolted against the extravagant grandson, Ismail, of able old Mehemet AH Pasha, who whipped the Turks. Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week. He did launch an armored column to take Djibouti, French...
...Vital frontier fortress Belgians held for weeks...
...unless armored with conviction; and the books, stressing both the filth of war and the partial falsity of the slogans, did tend to undermine conviction when their intent was to purify and strengthen it. But they ought to have been written. Their humane and rational teaching must be a vital element in forming the new moral purpose to arm a civilization challenged by war deliberately raised to a new height of filthiness and waged with slogans trebly false. . . . The right to think and speak about war as these authors did is one of the things we wish to defend...
...Rochester scientists urged that physicians should remember two vital facts: 1) gonococci quickly develop resistance to sulfanilamide and its relative sulfapyridine, even when these drugs are given in increasing amounts; 2) only sure test of the presence of tricky gonococci is careful laboratory culture...