Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republocrats" in the House and Senate who have organized for the purpose of defeating President Truman's legislative program [TIME, March 25]? Since the aim of this coalition seems to be to keep wages down, the cost of living up and national health poor, is it not rather vital to the democratic process that the voters know who is supporting this program...
Barzun agreed with the Student Council reports on general education that the issue of allotting college budgets to research rather than to teaching was the vital one in connection with the death of tutorial. "To be more than a phonograph," he admitted, "a teacher has to keep abreast of research in his field and do some original thinking...
...bomb had become legislators of a tremendous share of the future. Of these, Conant, because of the newsworthiness of his Harvard office and previous achievements as a chemist, has been given the greatest attention. This play in the press and radio is well merited, for he took a vital role in the project that began in 1940 and reached a climax at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...than 60% of U.S. production comes from small business (annual gross sales under $5 million). Nearly 80% of industrial labor is employed in small plants (with less than 1,000 on their payrolls). Last week an executive of one such concern went into print with the charge that this vital segment of the U.S. industrial economy was being squeezed to death. In an article in The Atlantic Monthly, building-insulation maker Robert E. Outman said...
...line techniques, short production runs and poor standardization of parts (the basis of mass production) keep unit costs up, output down. Most serious handicap of all is an antiquated supply system. Big British manufacturers depend on as many as 300 little independent firms for parts and materials. Lack of vital supplies held one recent week's production of Hillman Minxes down to eight cars-each of which, by company estimates, cost a staggering...