Word: vital
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's another vital reason why, in spite of the costs, the Medical School doesn't want to cut down the scale of its research program. To be able to maintain such a show--with grants continually coming in from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Department of Public Health, and many other donors--lends Harvard Medical tremendous prestige in the public eye and insures, in a sense, the reputation of the School...
Seldom has such asininity and irresponsibility been shown by the CRIMSON as in your phantasmagoric coverage of the Adams House forum on "The Vital Center." Your reporter's incompetency was first brought to light by the story announcing the forum, in which the CRIMSON said: "The book sets forth the author's (Schlesinger, Jr.'s) theories on a possible area of agreement between moderate liberal and modern conservative opinions." Your man obviously hasn't read the book, or does not comprehend it and has been misled by the title. Mr. Schlesinger, Jr. is a radical democrat and said...
Though men like socks, according to an informal poll, Harvard men are wary of hand-knitted argyle socks: they are too flashy, require luxurious care, usually don't fit and are never adequately reinforced. Unfortunately these vital statistics apparently come too late, as another informal poll showed knitting arglye socks and neckties the chief occupation at Radcliffe...
Russia, for instance, had agreed to let Austria stockpile vital materials (steel, chemicals), which the West considered necessary for Austria's recovery; the West had agreed to let Russia have a large share in Austria's oil production and prospecting rights. Some questions remained to be settled: e.g., whether Austria should be allowed to hire foreign technicians to help reconstruct her economy...
Opposing Schlesinger in the discussion, entitled "The Center and the Left," Herbert Aptheker, associate editor of "Masses and Mainstream," charged that the "vital center" of which Schlesinger is a proponent, "only maintains what exists, namely monopoly capitalism." He called for a unity among all non-conservatives "so that a war against Fascism and capitalism can and must be successful...