Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately, these reviewers do not represent our American culture, in which belief in God is a tremendously vital factor. Otherwise there would be terrifying truth in the meaningless gaucherie ("If Chambers is right in believing the major bulwark against Stalin to be faith in God, then it is time for men of conviction and courage to take to the hills") with which one reviewer writes off the noblest act of courage our generation is likely...
...vital post of temporary chairman of the convention, Walter S. Hallanan, manager of the successful Taft campaign in West Virginia...
...will they feel the result of inequalities in a worldwide exchange of goods far from the British hearth. Last week, in a speech that rang with the fervor of olden days, Winston Churchill did his best to shake the British out of their complacency. The crisis is "scarcely less vital," said he, than the dire days when the Nazis rained bombs over London...
America's colleges have gotten the point. Many of them would still like to sell on quality alone. But, as the chairman of one Harvard Alumni Schools Committee put it, the problem of admissions policy is One of the most vital that faces the College today. Each year we see wonderful boys of Harvard calibre go elsewhere. If we don't keep selling, we'll soon be left behind. To let up one iota in this fiercely competitive field would insure the same results as an established firm deciding it was not necessary to advertise...
...sideline, the tail began wagging the dog. As a worldwide craze for miniature cameras and candid photography grew, so did Leitz. By World War II, the company had 3,000 employees and was grossing $10 million a year. Then it concentrated on war work, and was so vital to the Nazi war industry that U.S. heavy bombers tried thrice to knock it out. Though its eight buildings were straddled with hundreds of bombs, hardly any were damaged. At war's end, Leitz began making Leicas for sale in Army PXs. To help defray the cost of occupation, resumption...