Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bloodshed is at an end on most areas of the globe, peacetime accidents and diseases still crop up regularly in all communities, Cambridge included. For the victim of hit-and-run driving or a homorrhagic ailment, a pint of blood, supplied gratis by the State Red Cross is a vital serum which often turns impending death into certain life...
...Pearl Harbor would fare if an enemy tried to repeat the Japanese coup of five years ago. From the decks of three aircraft carriers, 230 planes were flown against Oahu.* The defense was alerted and did its best in mock dogfights, but the attackers won by "destroying" the vital airfields which ring the great naval base, leaving it virtually defenseless...
Side by side with this development has come the increased importance of education as an all-pervading factor, in national life. Modern communications and transportation have made the flow of public opinion and people both simple and vital. No longer can it be held that the level and quality of education in Texas has no effect upon life in Oregon or Connecticut. In short, state-operated education now plays an ever-expanding role in the country's existence...
...which calls for some Federal financial aid, would some measure of Federal direction or control of the recipients of its aid be a good thing? On a broad policy level, should Washington have some practical voice in the aims and methods of the school systems which are so vital to the Nation's well-being? A quick yes-or-no answer to these questions is impossible. Their implications are too broad. What is clear, however, is that more widespread consideration of the possible merits and drawbacks of some Federal control of education is needed if an intelligent policy...
...bills being sent up Pennsylvania Avenue for the President's signature. Only two are of even passing importance--one an exemption from taxation of Mr. Rockefeller's gift to the United Nations, the other an extension of the war-time rate of certain excise taxes. The rest concern such vital issues as annual rates of pay for Senate clerical staffs, the Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission, installation of a storm drain under certain lands in Los Angeles, and payments to Switzerland for the sinking of the Awa Maru...