Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact remains that the H.S.U. is the most successful political group now active in the College. However pinkish may be the sources of its energy, the energy is there, and just at present it is directed toward achieving something vital to everyone" peace. Smaller organizations cannot hope to block up that energy, or erase its coloring...
...Rule" idea it seems that no one remembers that division came first and the ruling afterwards. Would TIME prefer civil war? We once fought to make the South remain a part of the U.S.A. What independence did we grant to those dissenters? Is Ireland from its position not more vital to England? England buys 80% of Ireland's exports and furnishes 60% of her imports. It looks to me as if the Northern Irish were working while the Southern Irish were talking politics, and nursing imaginary grievances. They haven't outgrown the age of the religious wars. FRANCES...
...gamble on a great scale, fraught with the risk of extending an already long front and the danger of exhausting a vital hoard of oil and other strategic materials. To work it had to have 1) surprise, 2) complete and efficient coordination of the three striking arms, army, navy, air force, on a broader and more complicated scale than any war had ever seen before. It involved landing parties at many points over hundreds of miles, a swift invasion across Denmark's land border, preparation by air and sea bombardment...
...Allies planned to dismember Germany and friends: Poland restored and enlarged at the expense of Germany and Russia; Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark; German cessions to Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland; Austria restored with an Adriatic outlet at Trieste; Yugoslavia enlarged at Italy's expense; Italy's vital Dodecanese Islands to Greece; Turkey increased at Bulgaria's expense...
...captain in the Army under Grant, got the right to use Zeiss patents nearly 50 years ago. They not only licensed Zeiss patents but made an arrangement for exchanging skilled men, techniques and manufacturing secrets. Their military products, only about 10% of their output, have become so vital to national defense that since 1912 the U. S. Navy has kept experts stationed continuously in the B. & L. plant as observers...