Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this country capable of supplying its needs for hundreds of years, inability to manage and control this great resource for the benefit of all concerned is very close to a national economic failure. ... At the present time the national government has little or no authority to deal with this vital necessity of the life of the country. It has permitted itself to remain so powerless that its only attitude must be humble supplication. Authority should be lodged with the President and the Departments of Commerce and Labor, giving them power to deal with an emergency. They should be able...
...play itself, it is neither very light nor very heavy. The management bills it as an ingenious comedy of the artistic temperament, which perhaps it is, if you know what they mean by that. Assuredly there is nothing either very vital or very comical about the methods which a Grand Opera star employs to regain her family. It is just pleasing fare, which you can go to and enjoy any old time. Unfortunately the talents of Miss Yurka are more at a premium...
...Briand remarked that we were also celebrating the coming marriage between peace and security. . . . Much progress was made in our negotiations during that trip. ... As night came on the skipper put back to Locarno, but we told him to cruise on for a while in the darkness. . . . Several vital points demanded a few hours more for discussion...
...nutrition. Scientists of the National Nutrition Institute of Japan have been able to produce cancer in rats by giving them foods deficient in vitamin A. This is the second time that cancer has been produced experimentally in living organisms, and according to Dr. Dayton, it will exert a vital influence on the study of the disease...
...upon the professor. His lectures may mean all that is here attributed to the lecture system at its best. Again, his lectures may be poor, perfunctory things, uninspired by philosophy and criticism, and hence lacking that necessary connection with the problems of life which marks the great difference between vital knowledge and statistics. When the latter is true, the fault lies with the man, not the system...