Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subcommittee made no mention of doing this by a tax increase or a cut in vital expenditures, but simply by removing "waste in government." That meant no hit-or-miss reductions, but a paring down all along the line. "The quest for economy," said the subcommittee, "must be continuing and unrelenting; it must not be limited to any one phase of the business cycle...
...death rate set an alltime low in 1948, the National Office of Vital Statistics reported last week. There were 1,444,337 deaths-i.e., 9.9 per 1,000 population, compared with 10.1 in 1947 and 10.0 (the previous low) in 1946. Markedly lower were deaths in childbirth (down 17%) and from syphilis (down 8%). But both heart disease (the heaviest killer-one-third of all deaths) and cancer slightly increased their toll...
...Vital Deduction. Drs. Ivy and Krasno reason that if the eye's arteries are narrowed, as shown by the flicker test, it is probable that other arteries, including those of the heart, are similarly affected...
Jenkins likes to think of the Monumenta as the first great "encyclopedia of the nation's sources ... a virtual blood bank of the vital life blood of research ... It is delivered," says he proudly, "for the everlasting service...
Objective Best. The result is a painstaking, broad-viewed and valuable study of a vital period in Russian development, throughout which Historian Eckardt does his objective best to separate Ivan into two Ivans: 1) the Personal Sadist, 2) the Unifier, born out of his time, caught in the inexorable process of history. Though the method doubtless deserves respect, its limitations are never so clear as in a book on Ivan...