Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American feminine element has an important viewpoint; we must address ourselves particularly to it. ... It is vital that young, good-looking and active speakers be sent to the United States instead of unhealthy, decrepit, tired, feverish, wornout, coughing and trembling ancients bound into frock coats. These have to be put to bed upon their arrival with hot water bottles at their feet, have to be awakened just in time for a conference, and when rushed to a station thousands of precautions have to be taken. That is why France is pictured as a tired, worn-out country...
...collective farms. The big cities and the army are adequately supplied with food. There is no actual starvation or death from starvation, but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition. . . . In every Russian village food conditions will improve henceforth, but that will not answer one really vital question-What about the coming grain crop? Upon that depends not the future of the Soviet power, which cannot and will not be smashed, but the future policy of the Kremlin...
Observers agreed that these two cards had been shoved up the President's sleeve by Vice Chancellor von Papen. At the week's end lean-jawed Lieut.-Colonel von Papen was fighting hard for yet another check on the Nazis: the vital post of Prussian Premier. He was holding his own at the week's end. Chancellor Hitler let it be known that the Premiership would not be definitely awarded for some time yet; possibly until after...
...door to some particularly staid establishment, like the Harvard Trust. For those who want beverage without food, however, he has planned his piece de resistance. This is to be a combination of the best features of the English pub or alehouse, and the tavern. Since this would be a vital part of the life of the college, it should have some official sanction. The proprietor would be elected by the graduates, or by representatives of the students and faculty in caucus, or perhaps he should be some sort of self-perpetuating body, to insure stability and quality in the cellar...
...Vital to the coal business, the decision was significant for all business because it was one of the Supreme Court's most liberal interpretations of the anti-trust laws. The emphasis it placed on the social purposes of a business combination coincided with a prime Rooseveltian motto: "It's not what you do, but how you do it." If Franklin should follow Theodore in holding that there are "good" trusts and "bad'' trusts, the executive arm of the Government would be in complete agreement with the Judicial arm. Dicta of the Chief Justice...