Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classifies them, and then leaves them--dry bones. The scholar goes through the same procedure, but before he quits the game, he breathes into his bones the breath of life, and from the dust of ages emerges a living idea. The scholar has connected them with life, and that vital connection marks the greatest difference between scholarship and pedantry...
...Evening Standard cried: the statement, it is vital that he deny it instantly. . . . Its effect is to discredit British propaganda past, present and future...
...persons and property, and set up instrumentalities for the administration of justice." Then he proceeded to dwell upon the manner in which religious influence may be exerted by both the clergy and the laity in helping the government to achieve its purposes; and crystallized his conception of the vital importance of religion to the state as follows...
...useful in other ways. The art of the theatre should not be used for propaganda, but it should be propaganda. This sounds like a paradox, but what I mean is that plays can be effectual and lasting, can be true art, only when they deal with matters vital to the people of the world, only when they strike truly and deep. Too many of today's comedies are based on clever lines: they are distorted photographs of modern superficialities...
Rehearsal. In London the return of Edward of Wales from his South American tour was preceded by a series of quaint yet vital doings. British Life Guards in full uniform and mounted on night-black charges cantered bravely to Victoria Station, wheeled through its gloomy archway, and drew up with a flashing salute before a strip of red carpet down which the Prince was not destined to march for another 24 hours...