Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be history two decades hence. What their solution may be is not for me to say. But I conclude this report with the strong conviction that short of a global war, the universities of this nation will be even more significant in 1973 than they are today. As vital centers of sound learning, as strongpoints defending individualized liberty, as communities of creative thinkers, on industrialized democracy can do without them: each year will demonstrate their indispensability to this society of free...
...great in fact is the threat. Those who have agreed with my diagnosis of the present danger will need no convincing when I say that I believe the position of the representative of the President of the United States in Germany in the coming years is one of vital importance. What a man with my background and experience can do remains for the future to decide. I can only promise to do my best. The fact that I was in Germany for eight months seven years after the end of World War I and that it is now just seven...
...condition than the most exacting critic could demand. Its administration and its finances are in the best possible shape and in exceptionally able hands. Every major division of the University is either the best or close to the best of its kind in the country. The entire organization is vital; its capacity for maintaining its standards and continuing its growth--both in ideals and in educational techniques--is assured for some time to come...
Building trades councils of the A.F.L.got wind of the project, objected that prefabs assembled by soldiers took work away from union members. The unions threatened strikes on other vital construction. The Army faltered, retreated from its housing plans; some Arctic-type tents were ordered. Last week the G.I.s began to store the crated prefabs. While the wind shrieked outside, the 52nd was back under canvas...
...Peter, his sister-in-law at first denied that he was in her home, then the following day handed out a typewritten statement signed "A. N. May": "I myself think that I acted rightly and I believe many others think so too." May tried to justify his delivery of vital atomic information to Russian espionage agents (TIME, Jan. 5) by saying: "I was wholeheartedly concerned with securing victory over Nazi Germany and Japan . . . My object now is to obtain as soon as possible an opportunity of doing useful scientific work, in which I can be of some service to this...