Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although we have long ceased to believe that the moon has any connection with mental disease, the intent of the benediction is as vital as ever. In present day prose, it might be expressed thus--"You shall be free from illness in body or aberration in mind", and of those the second is the more important to the man himself, and of by far the greater moment to the rest of the world. If to err in thought is an evil, and to escape it a benefit to oneself and others, there is also a duty to keep...
...Combination of grain-marketing companies-Armour Grain Co., Rosenbaum Grain Corporation, J. C. Schaffer & Co., Rosenbaum Bros., Davis-Noland-Merrill Grain Co.-organized, last year (TIME, July 28), to be taken over gradually as a cooperative organization by farmers) with the purpose of "retaining the confidence of the farmers," vital to the success of the Company...
...should decide that a literal belief in the Virgin Birth is essential because mentioned in the scriptures (even though Jesus never mentioned it), it must logically decree that a belief in the six-day creation is essential. In such an event, Dr. Coffin must leave the Church. And, more vital, thousands of young people must remain outside...
...Players must have confidence in that courage of their supporters. This confidence comes rather slowly. It is carefully built up and the substitution of an understudy undermines this stable ground of assurance. I imagine that nowhere is that so true as in vaudeville. There speed is the vital force...
...Tenth. The University has secured liberal endowment for a School of Hygiene and Public Health and has established the necessary courses to develop this long neglected and very vital subject." "W. Cameron Forbes...