Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides being vital to the success of reunion week, two victories over Yale will put Harvard into second place in the Eastern. Intercollegiate Baseball League. It's impossible for the Crimson to reach the top place now occupied by Columbia, because of the tie with Princeton, which can not be played off this year. The twin bill with the Elis will finish up the League season for all colleges...
...Philadelphia, admitted writing and disseminating the following letter: "Reputable investigators seeking to establish correctly the Roosevelt genealogy are forced to the conclusion that the President's forbears were Dutch Jews by the original name of Rosenfeld, inasmuch as they can find no trace of the Roosevelts in the vital statistics of Holland. This is not meant to disparage the President or his forbears. It is mentioned to possibly explain the present Mr. Roosevelt's extraordinary leaning toward Hebrews...
Society for Advancement of Science he made what was considered a daring speech indeed. To have praised live Jew Albert Einstein would have been madness, but he did praise dead Jew Heinrich Hertz, discoverer of "Hertzian waves." And bold Max Planck said: "History proves that the greatest and most vital discoveries were made by scientists who worked for the sake of pure science only...
...critical time in the Far East (TIME, Feb. 13, 1933).* Admiral Sellers' term (1933-34), will be recalled for the forced fleet march across Panama, undertaken on his own initiative. And the man already selected to run the Fleet in 1934-35 is so unique, so vital a personality that his term of command is sure to be memorable. On June 15, two days before the Fleet ends its 17-day visit to New York, all hands will be called on the quarter-deck of the Fleet's flagship, the band will be paraded, high officers will turn...
...that one example the whole philosophy of the armament makers reveals itself. Keep Europe in a constant state of nerves. Publish periodical war scares. Impress governmental officials with the vital necessity of maintaining armaments against the "agreesions" of neighbor states. Bribe as necessary. In every practical way create suspicion that security is threatened. And if you do your job thoroughly enough you will be able to sink into your armchair and reach the contented words of Eugene Schneider, announcing a dividend to his shareholders; "The defense of our country has brought us satisfactions which cannot be ignored...