Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With students acting more like a generation of book-eating silverfish than a group of well mannered readers, Widener Library and its annexes face an increasing shortage of essential texts. Irresponsible squiggles carved into the margins of valuable books and the destruction of entire chapters by argumentative students retire vital books from service with alarming frequency. This destruction of rare and out-of-print works seriously hampers the efficiency of the University library system. Coupled with increasing book thefts by a few slippery dips, the mutilation of library property becomes a problem that must be solved if students expect...
TIME'S Sept. 29 cover showed . . . the red pieces [on the chess board] hopelessly positioned with king in check, vital men doomed, checkmate a certainty...
Economically, the oil-producing Arab states cannot halt their concessions without severing their supply of dollars. While Arab oil is important but not vital to the United States, American foreign exchange nourishes the power of the Effendi. The recent Arab League decision to postpone discussion of western oil concessions suggests that this Arab weakness is understood at home. A recent Arab threat, close ties with Russia, has evaporated, and never really existed outside the minds of Alice in Wonderland disciples...
...started Monday night when this weary scribe made his helated return upon a scene of near hysteria. Lost was any chance of writing a simple story about the football game. Harassed reporters, most of whom had stayed in Boston, converged from all directions with their own bits of vital news gathered from the usual reliable sources...
...dominant factor. Begun fairly unsuccessfully last winter, this rearrangement includes forums, dances, weekly movie nights, as well as pleasant surroundings. But last year the handicap of having two thousand Freshmen seemed too much for the officials and students. The new secretary of the Union is a young and vital man, and he is using this year's class as guinca pigs for the experiment of restoring the club-like atmosphere as well as the activities to the Union. But at the present there is not enough impoius toward unity in the Freshman Class: a year that should be the social...