Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adopted. At the time this was an intelligent forward step but with the change in the attitude of undergraduates which has taken place recently it has become completely antiquated. Today men are primarily interested in playing the game, and although the desire to win is naturally still a vital factor in all athletic encounters it is not the completely dominant one that it once...
...college the instructor would correspond to the director of a research foundation or the leader of a scientific expedition. He would coordinate the collected material, point out overlapping interests, raise questions, and direct further systematic attacks on both individual and collective problems. Such an instructor would necessarily be a vital factor in ensuring the success of this plan...
Compared with the myriads of tourists who invade Europe yearly from our shores the few Europeans who come to America can hardly be considered an important or vital source of income. As the European tax was first installed following our move might we not well follow them in the courtesy of abolishing...
...stroke man is so pressing, it would not be surprising to see some hitherto unhalled oarsmen given an opportunity to set the beat. With P. H. Watts '31 a questionable factor when it comes to the endurance necessary for the long trial with Yale, and Swaim not showing the vital rythm a dark horse may walk off with the honors during the coming practice session...
...brain to be crocked in glass at Cornell University,* his skeleton to be mounted and displayed at Washington, his vital organs to be disposed here and there -such was the will of Dr. Daniel Smith Lamb, 85, Army autoptician, who died at Washington last week of pneumonia. During his long medical career he had performed 1,500 post mortems including those of President James Abram Garfield and his assassin Charles Jules Guiteau; and Grant's second Vice President, Henry Wilson,† "I, Daniel Smith Lamb," he wrote in his will, "object to burial or incineration and had rather after...