Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kills him when he is pummeling a boy who tried to kiss her. Her lawyer, who is her real lover, convinces the jury that her husband committed suicide. Throughout these proceedings Greta Garbo wears beautiful, oulandish clothes. At times her talent even brings a flash of something vital and convincing to the dull, over-photographed sequences. Best shot: three cleaning women eating lunch at the judge's bench after session...
...tutorial system, and the argument is raised that, as this system is one of the features of the House Plan, the engineers will have no place in the new units. But for have no place in the new units. But for this very reason it is all the more vital for the future bachelors of science to live under the cultural atmosphere and have the benefit of the social aspects of the House idea. The engineering students are too small in number to form an adequate group for themselves, all the more so since they have but a single scholastic...
...Seal. They could not use the seals of their own banks, sacred to commerce. But the smart Chicagoan secretary of the conference, Dr. Lichtenstein, had a watchcharm seal: "W. L." Pressing this upon a hot red splotch of wax, Mr. Lichtenstein* sealed with humorous pomposity a business paper more vital than many a treaty. In effect it is the blueprint design for a giant cash register through which Germany will pay some nine billion-dollars in Reparations over 58 years...
...idle to inveigh against the stubborn fact some of the most thoroughly joyous, some of the most intensely vital experiences of living are inevitably interwoven with risk. One of Harvard's players has added his name to the fortunately small, but always unhappily large percentage of men who have derived more harm than good from participation in a fine game. It only remains to extend to Victor Harding and his family a deep sympathy that they have been made to suffer by a serious football injury...
...World War chanced to begin on Aug. 4, 1914. If some trace the War no further than to an archducal assassination, then others might trace the Crash to a variety of such moments as that when Goldman Sachs terminated the syndicate on their Blue Ridge investment trust. Vital point is the undermining of popular confidence that ended in the crash...