Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute in the last three months. Since we may expect film showings to continue to be big business, we may expect more irresponsible behavior. While dishonesty and cut-throat competition make news for the CRIMSON, they are hardly business acumen. Honest and ordered conduct of film showings is of vital concern to the College as well as the organizations involved. We can have more and healthier competition within enforceable rules than operating under unenforceable deals...
...many a Northwesterner-among them lean, soft-spoken Berne Jacobsen, 46, city editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer-the mountains are a vital part of life. When he was younger, Jacobsen went north in the Jack London tradition, to the greater ranges of Alaska, and later wrote of handloggers, prospectors, coastal fishermen. By the time his only child, Keith, was born, Jacobsen was claimed by the chores of the city room. But as the boy grew, the father found time to take him into the mountains on innumerable weekend trips...
...like Egypt, lives by irrigation: its rivers are its life. When the Punjab's canals yield plentiful water, Pakistani peasants harvest three good crops a year; when the canals run dry, the peasants are apt to starve. Pakistan's complaint is that India has dried up eleven vital canals by diverting water from the Punjabi head-streams to its irrigation schemes...
This committee will inform the Corporation of faculty opinion and sentiment throughout the probes, and is expected to have a vital part in deciding Corporation policy if professors refuse to testify and are cited for contempt...
...came boats, planes, and engineering supplies as well. In one day the R.A.F. flew in some 50,000 sandbags. U.S. motorized columns raced across Germany's Autobahnen into The Netherlands to lend a hand, while fleets of Flying Boxcars roared in laden with life rafts, serums, and other vital supplies. The Netherlands War Ministry promised each G.I. the same daily bonus (26? and a package of cigarettes) that the Dutch soldiers got for flood relief work, but the offer was turned down...