Word: vitalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Town", presented by Jed Harris, written by Thornton Wilder, and starring Frank Craven, vitalizes the vital statistics of Grovers Corners, a mythical village in New Hampshire. Mr. Craven, called the Stage Manager, saunters about leisurely arranging and rearranging the few odd pieces of furniture serving as scenery, takes two parts in the play, apologizes for the coarseness of the characters' remarks, makes running comments to fill in the gaps in the action while leaning nonchalantly on one side of the portal of the stage and puffing, away at his pipe, thanks the actors for the episodes they have presented...
...important trend in modern dentistry, vital to public health, is the broadening of the interests of dentists to include many aspects of general medicine, Dean Leroy M. S. Miner, of the Dental School, asserted in his annual report issued yesterday...
...Chinese Government were in Hong Kong. That city is the traditional refuge of Chinese who have found China somewhat too hot for them, are waiting to see if it gets so hot they must go on to Europe or America. At present however, it is also the vital point on the diplomatic and military line of supply which the Chinese Government still has with the rest of the world...
...year examinations slowly descends nearer and nearer to the tender, bared flesh of the undergraduate neck, student red-corpuscle-pressure mounts steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall at 9:30, bolts down...
Again, these three points are in no way a complete statement of the Student Union's position, but they do indicate a line of action which will make the organization at once socially useful, and a vital part of the lives of its two-hundred-twenty odd members. The Harvard Student Union acts and learns by acting, though of course it cannot be sure of its "preparation" to "cope with . . . real life" always; no one can. But let us not, as George Santayana has urged, "come to doubt in the lazy freedom of revery, whether two and two make four...