Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more popular with educational leaders. It would have been interesting and even informative to have secured. President Angell's attitude What he has offered is to the point in so far as the ornaments of his theme are concerned; and if he has omitted the discussion of the most vital portion of the matter it is possibly because he believes that no individual, not even one well versed in the facts, can answer the question entirely satisfactorily and fairly...
...particular script is as legible as in a hasty printing but he should congratulate himself on the brief time necessary for registration. In the majority of universities, registration is symbolical for standing endlessly in line, for answering countless questions and for filing innumerable bonds. The registration limp is as vital a disease as the writer's cramp and much more prevalent. And the hours which pass while waiting in line are among the bitterest in the human rosary. At Harvard it means little more than a walk to one of various halls and ten minutes spent there while registering...
Artificial Life. In 1870, Scientist Huxley declared it would be "the height of presumption" to suppose that chemists would not some day be able to bring together the constituents of protoplasm under such conditions that they would assume vital properties. Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson of Yale cited sulphur-dwelling bacilli as an example of the sort of artificial life chemists might hope to produce first. These bacilli thrive and multiply in a solution of sulphuric acid, needing no sunlight, prime requisite of most other plants. Self-sufficient in an inorganic environment, these bacteria may have been the link between...
After shaking hands all round, they resorted to Denver's State Office Building, assumed their poker faces and resumed their long, long discussion of a problem vital to all, a problem in water, the main stream of water in all the 792,509 sq. mi. governed by them, the Colorado River...
...Reading, the Central of New Jersey and the Western Maryland, each of which is demanded by two or more of the competitors, be neutralized. But, "it is announced, moreover, that any new plan that may be worked out must provide for what the Pennsylvania officials believe to be their vital needs [see above], if such a plan is to get anywhere. Also, it must take into account the Loree fifth trunk line plan, regarding that plan as a fact and not as a theory. . . . They are counting on another conference at an early date. . . . Failure to confer further...