Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole question is of vital importance and merits prompt action; for it affects every...
...Superman. For Shaw wrote Methuselah in 1921 as a companion sequel to his Superman of 1903. In the earlier play Shaw argued his thesis, taken from Schopenhauer, that woman is the pursuer rather than the pursued; and his ideas, taken from Bergson, about the Life Force (elan vital). Methuselah continues the same discussion, except that Shaw now adopts Bergson's later term Creative Evolution...
...Senate, not the White House, would write the bill. Last week, too, on the international front, the House missed nullifying Ike's status-of-forces agreements only by going into an unusual tie isee below) despite the President's urgent warning that the agreements were "vital...
Food v. Factories. China's willingness to go against Communist doctrine is most evident in its approach to what Newsman Kinmond calls "the most vital question in China today": how to "feed a population increasing at the rate of 12 million annually." Ignoring Karl Marx's faith in population increase, the government has embarked on a drastic birth-control program that will soon include free abortions and sterilization. The crux of the problem, Kinmond emphasizes, is that China's "main source of foreign credit" for heavy industrial equipment is the export of foodstuffs...
...deepest reserves of untapped anguish. "Nothing," says Hubble, "is too large or too small for us to undertake to help." The bureau gives advice to unwed mothers, frigid wives and suspicious husbands, wrestles with material problems ranging from rent boosts to phony reducing pills, publishes scores of pictures and vital statistics of missing persons each year so that helpful readers may help restore runaway spouses to heartbroken helpmeets. In addition to its domestic clientele, the service last year got appeals for help from 49 foreign countries...