Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...responsibility, comes under the same category. The rominal discrepancies, arising from the differences between Mr. Wilbur's and the Admiral's points of view are, however, inessential; the chief idea is that General Mitchell, by keeping up the fight tried to arouse public interest in a matter of vital public concern, until the Government at length took some notice of the situation. If Admiral Magruder's present difficulties have a similar result he will be more than justified...
...both cases it is a question of seeds falling on stones and thorny ground of vital information unheeded by the adamant ears of the authorities, or directed at the public, after a brief and spectacular growth of interest, as in the case of General Mitchell, being choked by the thistles of indifference...
...increasing intimacy between students and their instructors, between those who learn and those whose business it is to teach. Compulsory for men taking certain introductory courses in Latin and Greek, these conferences have resulted not only in broadening the student's knowledge but also in maintaining a vital and healthy enthusiasm for his work...
...ironic benediction. One may remark, with an air of indifference, that such a "broadening" charitable phrase is not necessary in the Yard, or one may point out the obvious fact, which is that such students as go out for broadening should do it in their spare time: but the vital fact is one which Mr. Johnson has overlooked. The trend is not towards more interest in "activities", but to a more moderate use of them; the times have changed...
Senator Glass pictured the "vital interest" of any U. S. banking group whose transactions should be vetoed while those of another were approved. He could conceive how one foreign government might "marvel and feel aggrieved" when the State Department put an embargo on its bonds while officially attesting the high credit of some other nation...