Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday when, having quarrelled, it is reported, over the ingredients of a salad, the lady fired seven shots from a revolver at her friend. As she is remarkably proficient in everything she undertakes, every shot took effect. The man lives, but in a much perforated condition, in which every vital organ has been missed by a hair's breadth. The doctors even predict his recovery...
...work-roughened hand of the steelmaker joined figuratively last week with the delicate hand of the jeweler in a dance of delight. The Senate Finance Committee recommended tariff changes on items of vital concern to each...
India in Bondage. Jabez Thomas Sunderland is a Unitarian who spent a large part of his most vigorous years in India making more Unitarians. Laymen are often cautious in listening to a "missionary," but they will find the 552 pages of India in Bondage vital, comprehensive, militantly fair. Out of a mass of closely dovetailed facts and testimony rises Dr. Sunderland's major theme: the Indian is mentally and morally equal to the Englishman and therefore competent to emerge from tutelage and enjoy freedom on equal terms...
Here is the very crux of a matter which is vital because the continued refusal of British Governments to grant India independence within the Empire (that is "dominion status" similar to Canada's) has always been based on the ground that Indians are not yet ready to govern themselves. Naturally the degree of India's "readiness" is a matter of opinion, and here is a big, well ordered, meaty book from which opinion can be digested...
...vital point of policy tousle-haired, impulsive Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald last week shifted from shy to bold...