Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These two opposing views, as everyone knows, were presented with the greatest energy by M. Paul-Boncour (France) and Viscount Cecil (Britain) when the Council of the League deliberated upon these questions and many another (TIME, Dec. 21). As a result, it was considered imperative that vital if quite academic preparations should be made before the Disarmament Conference itself should be convoked - if ever. The press of the world has unfortunately given the impression by its headlines that "disarming" is to be attempted at this preliminary and purely preparatory conference. Such is not the case...
...Harvard once had a vital duty to perform in meeting the needs of her commonwealth and her New England, she has an even higher duty to perform in meeting the needs of an intellectually careless nation. That she is doing so is apparent to the careful observer, and press or public to the contrary, may she so continue. For the need of University training in the Harvard tradition of intellectual vigor is more than ever necessary for the maintenance of national self respect...
...other of the collegiate Chautauquas. Of course they do afford pleasant rendezvous with other brightened and enlightened who can spend holiday hours hearing inferior lectures which they would cut were they given at college. So perhaps they are quite necessary. At least they do keep the Billy Sunday tradition vital in the college world and give many a young wall flower the chance to escape her destiny of being born to bloom unseen...
Whenever the metropolitan press finds coaching to write of moving picture actresses and all the other luminaries of modern existence, it turns to the college or filler and rams into its pages to minis after column concerning such vital college matters as Ford cars or cafeterias. If these articles were sane and sound or in any way represented the colleges as they really are, there could be no complaint. But never is that the case...
...will hardly be able to give the amount of time which the work will require. The collection of the Budget will be made in such a way that the prominence of a name will have little advantage, while the diligence and industry of the individual will be more than vital...