Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seal fisheries dispute with England and defending the McKinley Tariff were his first big jobs, both successful. President Harrison made him a Federal judge in Ohio. He handed down the decision dissolving the cast-iron pipe monopoly-first vital effect of the Sherman anti-trust law. President Roosevelt, the trustbuster, offered him twice a Supreme Court appointment but he declined...
...Even More Objectionable." Specific, technical points made in the Coolidge-Kellogg note, and of vital importance, are set forth in the following excerpts from the note...
...United States has received from His Majesty's Government a communication summarizing the understanding reached between the British and French governments as to a basis of naval limitation. . . . Unfortunately the Franco-British agreement appears to fulfill none of the conditions which, to the American government, seem vital...
...catastrophe ensues. . . . The city dies. The nation without the vital lymph of youth and new generations, cannot resist and, being composed of cowardly old people, must necessarily fall a prey to younger peoples knocking at its deserted frontiers...
...hopes of the investigators in its reversal of accepted facts. But it can interest educators only in so far as it takes from them one more weapon in their futile battle with the business men who question the worth of college education. Although those worn figures can have no vital part in the individual's appraisement of his own culture, the educated must regret the passing of the only mutually understand dable data with which they could confront such rabid materialists as Roger Herbs...