Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador Ogden Haggerty Hammond's coach rode Count Velle, whose duty was to introduce the new U. S. Ambassador to Spain to H. M. Alphonso XIII, a vital, resolute young man with a twinkle...
Recent exhaustive researches by Dr. John C. Phillips of Wenham, Mass., have incontrovertibly shown the decline of the Harvard birthrate. The research, on Harvard alone, is currently published in the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. It is not unlikely that the figures are representative of the trend of vital statistics in other higher-educated groups in the U. S. Dr. Phillips studied the reproductive activity of the Harvard classes of 1891-1900. The married graduates of this decade had produced but 2.33 children apiece. More alarming, the proportion of childless marriages had risen progressively from...
That really is the question which confronts the University Debating Union. Either the Union exists or it does not exist. And when such questions as the might of Mencken are its sole breath of life, it cannot be called particularly vital...
There are many and vital movements which the undergraduate should either take part in or take pot shots at. The Student Federation to some is important, to others as worthwhile as, a motorman on a dinosaur. The Debating Union could well indulge in debate on the Federation's merits. They could have pondered forensically the worth of the Student Friendship Drive--and, at least, someone would have understood why he was contributing. But the Debating Union is content to mangle Mencken or adjudge the capacity for boiled eggs of the average publicity seeker. Perhaps that is their ultimate. One could...
...TIME entered the market with a new sophistication process? I refer to the recent Quiz section. Or have the Editors carried over collegiate quiz-taking habits and now wish to paternalize their helpless readers? There are too many vital and pertinent items of news interest for your able but caustic causerie to permit a column and more for the self-improvement guild. Most of us are delighted and edified by the rest of your scintillating columns. We deplore such an unnecessary attempt to dictate a more careful reading. Has not TIME an audience sufficiently alert and curious and discriminating...