Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar example of the type of man whom everybody knows about but very few know much about is Martin Luther. He was a vital influence in the politics, religion and literature of the XVI century and the lectures to be given about him this morning and Saturday by Professor Howard should be of interest to students in any of those fields. They are to be given at 11 o'clock in Sever...
When his short, 30-minute speech was over, Gustav Stresemann had unquestionably voiced the consensus of German opinion on these three vital topics. He soon received a vote of confidence 219 to 98. His speech was no less definitive and important than the Armistice Day Address in which President Calvin Coolidge spoke for the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 26) upon two of the very topics keynoted by Dr. Stresemann-Limitation of Armaments and Inter-Allied Debts...
Bewildered patriots wondered whom to believe, last week, when Hungary's two foremost Counts and statesmen made public and opposite answers to a vital question: "Is or is not the Archduke Otto of Habsburg now King of Hungary, since he has come of age?" (TIME...
...lies astride the equator. The ruling class is of pure Spanish blood, proud and enervated. In consequence almost half the territory which is legally Ecuadorian is actually within a "sphere of influence" impudently maintained by adjoining and militant Peru. Here again, as in Colombia, the factor of altitudes is vital and decisive. Gigantic parallel ranges of mountains, many over four miles high, cut off the nominally sovereign scions of Spain in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, from the vas' hinterland tracts which Peru has quietly and simply taken. Quito perches at an altitude of two miles, has a Savoy...
From a prissy little man such words would sound insufferably priggish. From Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-who looks like the Great Buddha suddenly galvanized into something strenuous and vital-the command "Don't degenerate!" rang with significance and power. Chinese know that the largest private army in the world-150,000 men-is maintained by Feng Yu-hsiang, and that he has inspired his soldiers to a remarkable degree with his own austere strength. Each soldier has been taught a trade. The whole army can support itself indefinitely upon the Chinese countryside in Liberty, Frugality, Fraternity...