Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repeat that these matters must not be permitted to divert the attention of the public from the vital questions now before them. I venture, therefore, to express the hope that the nominee of the Republican Party will see fit by some explicit declaration to join in entirely removing this topic from the field of political debate...
Behind this reticence of copper producers as to the vital statistics of their business lies a grievance against the leading buyers and manufacturers of copper. The latter, it is claimed, have right along been unwilling to put their cards on the table by revealing their requirements, yet they have eagerly used the producers' figures. As long as a condition of overproduction of copper existed, this unequal situation was greatly in favor of the manufacturers, who could use their knowledge of the non-fabricated copper market to obtain the lowest possible prices on all occasions...
However, M. Herriot's Opposition, and, it was feared, some of the Government parties, saw in the British Premier's scheme the snapping of a vital thread which enabled France to control reparations questions through the Reparations Commission (TIME, July 14). The Premier was forced to see the logic of this argument, and in order to clear the matter up the two Premiers decided...
...upon all the points they discussed. The necessity of further cooperation and of closer permanent relations was, however, emphasized. Recognition of Russia was left to the independent action of each nation, but admission of Germany to the League of Nations was agreed to by all three Ministers. The most vital question today agitating the peace of Central Europe (the possible attack upon Rumania by Russia on account of Bessarabia) was not discussed...
...sort cannot be too greatly deplored in advance. The main purpose of any university worthy the name is not special training, but the diffusion of a broad, liberal education, and the fostering of an idealistic humanism. Not until everything possible has been done to further the accomplishment of this vital aim the sine qua non of all civilizations which have left their impress on the pages of history can the claims of externals or appendages be considered...