Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present situation, from the point of view of world peace, it does not seem very vital that the United States should act. We shall not greatly change the situation by giving support to the Court. The Court will not be busier, immediately. It might gain something in prestige, but that can easily be over-stated. America had a golden opportunity at the end of the War to take part in establishing this Court, but we threw it away. While we were talking and voting for "an association of nations," 48 other states were building this Court on solid foundations...
...there are some practical needs to be met. We have made little progress in arbitration since the war. Other countries have made much. In June, 1924, we signed an arbitration treaty with Sweden which followed the old style of reserving questions of national honor and vital interest. As M. Hymans recently told the Belgian Parliament, that formula is outworn. But we have been held back by our failure to take part in the current work of organization...
...goes without saying that football conducted in this manner will not carry the financial burden of athletics as it now does. An endowment for athletics will therefore, be necessary. This last point is vital and inevitable, if football is to escape from the evils of overemphasis which now are manifest. So long as colleges depend upon gate receipts from football games to support their entire athletic program, this fact alone will remain a sufficient excuse for continuing the present unsatisfactory system...
This pride in work, Mr. Williams asserted, is one of two vital factors in the labor problem. The other is the colossal importance, to the unskilled laborer, of obtaining a daily job. Mr. Williams described his experiences as one of the mass of unemployed whose life seemed worthless because there was no place for them to use their powers...
...bang which last bang proves, after all, noise is victor. Indeed, this age has long ceased to be one of iron it is one of noise. And until there comes some quiet, until there arrives the majestic calm of a calmer century, there can be no deep philosophy, no vital...