Word: vital
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some people, whose sense of orderliness is all enveloping, have spent a great deal of time, much more worry, and a modicum of intelligence on the problem of what to call the present war. Quite irrespective of the fact that war is fought as a vital mode of justice to preserve the living age, rather than as a spectacle to be duly nominated and recorded in history, the more important fact remains that wars are not named by those who fight them...
...Performs Vital Functions...
Economists are generally agreed that speculation normally performs some very vital functions. The economist does not defend monopolistic speculation--the effort to "corner" the market. Such efforts--more likely to be successful in the stock market than in the grain market, because the capital required to control a corporation is vastly less than that required to control the world's stock of a great staple grain--have been made, and have at times had demoralizing effects. When made, they should be punished mercilessly. It does not appear, however, that monopolistic combinations by speculators dealing in "futures" is the cause...
...consider that 300,000,000 must be fed, and that 40,000,000 have been taken out of productive forms of work. Each bushel produced here now means a great deal to the progress abroad and makes the disposal we are to make of the summer seem very vital. We are not planning a summer lark, but the most effective way to spend fifteen weeks...
...National service is the vital need of the hour, and Military Training the foundation upon which it must rest. The prime factors of National Service comprehend the industrial and military forces of the nation and are necessarily inter-dependent...