Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of years, the Army, backed by the Navy, has been the only vital force in Greece. Since the Allies demanded the abdication of King Constantine in 1917, the public has tended to become more and more apathetic to political events at Athens and completely subservient to the demands and wishes of the military parties...
Beyond. With the death of Das, what is to become of Swaraj? It was, and probably still is, a vital question for all Anglo-Indians. Will Swaraj and its non-violence fall by the red sword of violent revolution? Who could stop it? Not Gandhi, for he has lost most of his following. But perhaps the Pandit Motilal Nehru, the next greatest disciple of Swaraj and always the most formidable intellect of the party...
...woods again. Meanwhile, one Terynka-a girl as pretty, wild, red, sly', as the little fox-has been misled by a rogue who, meeting the fox in the woods, destroys him also. Thus Janáĉek, now 70, at once the oldest and the most vital of all Czech composers, has turned back to romantic music with the first opera that has ever professed to consider beasts and birds as significant apart from their usefulness as marionettes of satire...
...custom long honored at Princeton is the compilation of senior statistics. Before leaving Nassau each class commits itself upon such vital questions as: "Who is the best dressed man in the class? Who thinks he is? Who has the finest legs...
There are times of stress when men must fight for the greater truth as they see it against another aspect of truth which in the insistent strife is less vital; times when duty demands not to ask the reason why, but to do and die! Then duty becomes heroic, but intellectually simply. In more tranquil periods the supreme duty is to think aright. It is then that opinions can, and should, be formed that will direct action when the stress comes. Let us not forget that in peace the conflicting opinions are formed that later produce wars; that in quiet...