Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Provost, of course, believes that athletic facilities are as much a part of the college as libraries. But one can hardly label watching football games a vital educational activity. When students patronize the stacks of Lamont, they are fulfilling certain academic requirements. Sooner or later, they must pass examinations to determine if they have soaked in enough knowledge. But at Soldiers Field, nobody has to absorb anything except perhaps fresh air. The college has a traditional duty to turn out men capable of its degrees, but none to manufacture students who know its football cheers and basketball tactics...
...disease rates. Whooping cough has been reduced by 90% to 95% in cities where the program was started two years ago, and diphtheria has been cut by 65% to 70%. Nobody knows how many children's lives have been or can be saved, because Colombia's vital statistics are too sketchy. But where something like one-sixth of all children have been dying before the age of five, there is plenty of room for lifesaving...
...skull-joined Siamese twins, separated in an operation that made medical history (TIME, Dec. 29). Roger continued to exist in a deep coma, but that was all. Late one night last week he died. At the University of Illinois' Neuropsychiatric Institute in Chicago, doctors listed pressure on the vital centers at the base of the brain as one cause of death. Actually, the wonder was not what killed 16-month-old Roger but how he had stayed alive so long...
MacLeish is cited for "the range and distinction of his poetic achievement over a period of 35 years and for the courage with which he has handled vital contemporary themes...
Despite protests from the League's attorneys, Federal Judge Alan K. Grim held that the number of viewers of televised football was a vital consideration in the case. The NFL maintains that the trial issue is not how many people are entitled to see free televised games, but whether public interest is being harmed by a conspiracy to stifle competition...