Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fundamental issue will be debated under conditions where its advocates support a programme including neither arson nor bomb-throwing, and where those opposed will not demand jail sentences for Socialists at the mention of the word. The present opportunity is the first a government has had to discuss so vital a problem in the atmosphere of a budget debate, the first time that socialism has had as cool attention as a financial report...
...Power" wrote the great French novelist, Balzac, in "The Country Doctor", "is, as it were, the heart of the State. Nature, in all her creations, shuts in the vital principle to give it greater stamina; so with the body politic." This is the key to the study of government. The national State is the most powerful creature in the modern world. Hence, even if its study were not a matter of importance, it would be a fascinating diversion for educated men. But it happens to be a study of the greatest importance. We live in a world which is mostly...
Eddie Guest in his office is a delight. Short, stocky, vital, with none of the manners of the British Isles, and plenty of the breeziness of the Middle West, he shows you his books with pride and talks of his work with high seriousness. I just managed to catch hold of his coattails and detain him for a few moments. This respite was doubtless between the writing of a syndicate poem and the sending out of a radio broadcast. He then took me for a ride in the Ford car which was presented to him by the great manufacturer himself...
...fact remains, however, that at a place where intellectual freedom should be the guiding spirit, a vital liberty,--freedom of the press,--was infringed. No matter what the students choose to print, faculty censorship should not be resorted to. Suppression by government is justifiable only on grounds of public emergency. In the universities, no consideration whatsoever ought to take precedence over the unrestricted expression of the students, ill-advised or tactless...
...general argument for a Department of Education at Washington is that the National Government should not neglect a business of such vital importance to the nation. Such a Department, it is said, will not interfere with local institutions except to advise and give useful information. At the same time it can be of immense service in fighting national illiteracy and helping the immigrant...