Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most active subjects presented for discussion and study at the meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers in New York City early next February. All means of securing evidence concerning conditions existing in the solid rock ahead of actual exploration by operations are of course of vital interest to men in this field and geologists and others interested in the development of natural resources have steadily been working on the improvement of methods for estimating the nature of bodies concealed in the crust of the earth. No methods have been found or are likely to be found...
Mayor Quinn's proposal of a "gentleman's agreement" between Cambridge and the colleges within its gates brings up a subject that has become increasingly vital with the continued growth of the city and its universities in the past few years. From the purely legal aspects of the matter the proposal may appear to be entirely in favor of Cambridge, since the colleges make a definite pledge regarding operations with their property, while the city can make only an unofficial agreement to cooperate with the universities' plans for closing and widening streets. But according to Mayor Quinn that...
...which he left about 1879, or in Denver, where, in 1893, he was, as always, dignified and rather magnificent. If those who have been trying to make his story sell biscuits had first taken the obvious step of looking up the history of this one of our most characteristically vital Americans, they could have undoubtedly made valuable copy and sold more biscuits...
...first hearing, however, it failed to inspire any widespread confidence. People were becoming increasingly wary of modern composers. Repeated hearings of the Pacific were necessary to convince that it was more than freakish stuff. But for five years now it has endured, and since, substantiating it as ringing, vital music, there have been King David, Antigone, Judith, now Rugby...
...Health Association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Dean Frank W. Nicolson of Wesleyan University, secretary) and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (Louis I. Dublin, statistician) collated the vital history of 40,000 graduates of eight colleges from 1870 to 1905, of 5,000 athletes of ten colleges and 6,500 honor students of six colleges from graduation until June...