Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kensuke Horinouchi, hunched Mr. Berle was a figure of doom last week. Expiring in only 72 hours was the U. S. Japanese Commerce & Navigation Treaty of 1911. the keystone of a trade vital to Japan and valuable to the U. S. At and after the stroke of midnight. Jan. 26, the U. S. could hike tariff duties on imports from Japan, put many an obstacle in the way of exports to Japan. Ambassador Horinouchi therefore came to ask: What...
...just returned to Tokyo from a tour of China, where he had cabled a series of six stories on the progress of Japan's undeclared war. Wrote Jimmy Young from Hong Kong: "Japan's vital war strength is waning. ... I have been amazed to find how little Japanese leaders in Tokyo know of the Chinese spirit and determination. In the mountain regions the Japanese are on the defensive." Of bustling Chungking, China's new capital, he declared: "It affords an amazing contrast to a dull Tokyo and the latter's burdened, bureaucratic methods...
...millions provided U. S. versions of the Oxford college system; Columbia (a library, medical funds); Phillips Exeter Academy and other preparatory schools; the Commonwealth Fund (upwards of $50,000,000 for rural hospitals, medical research, education, etc.); Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum; the Pilgrim Fund (to serve "the most vital needs" of Great Britain...
...evidence of the important contributions of the Houses to the life of Harvard College. There rest upon all of us a very special obligation to see that the memorial which he has left behind in the Houses along the banks of the Charles serves as a worthy and vital monument...
American college chapels are performing a vital service for the cause of religion in being "inter-denominational adventures in church unity . . . prophetic of an increasing unity among all men and women of religious good will," it was asserted today by Dean Willard L. Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers, in his annual report of the activities of the Memorial Church...