Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lest Congress, following some idle resolution, should begin the new year by attending to business are reassured by the promise that the post-holiday session will open with more than the usual amount of oratorical fulmination. The strongest spark firing the barrage which should rather successfully bury the really vital issue of tax reduction is the Mexican situation. The Administration has sold arms and ammunition to President Obregon who will use them to quell the de la Huerta insurrection...
...point, and is largely a local phenomenon if the testimony of conditions at Yale and Princeton given at a recent debating conference may be a criterion. Yale, working perhaps from the top downwards, has an increased number of debates with outside colleges; while Princeton, applying stimulus at a more vital point, has interested something over an average of two hundred men in bi-monthly forums where discussion is free and open...
...many who have sought passage with him will have many an hour on the Atlantic to reflect on questions of vital concern to civilization. In their persons, safeguarded in accordance with ancient usage, there is given to the world a profound lesson in international law. A thousand hostile commanders, any one of whom might send them to watery graves and boast of it, if actuated as the German Admiralty is actuated, will see them safely home, as in honor bound...
...conservatism of this Washington Salon, however, is by no means as rigid as that of the National Academy exhibition just ended in Manhattan. Offsetting and in certain points eclipsing the canvases crowned with official awards, one finds an occasional vital and moving contribution by some out-and-out radical-as for example Rockwell Kent's radiant reverie of the Sun-lit Valley, or the emotionalized landscape transcriptions of Haley Lever and Allan Tucker. The large and growing group of independent-spirited painters who still remain "of" though not always "with" the National Academy includes such significant names as Childe...
...three Athletic Conferences which will meet at Atlanta during the vacation will concern themselves with several topics which should prove exceedingly interesting, if not particularly vital. After last year's National Collegiate Athletic Association Meeting, when the Football Rules Committee made so many changes in the football code, the results of this year's Conference may seem insignificant. But the fertile question of "Faculty Control of Athletics" will make no little argument, and introduced as it will be by President Angell of Yale, its solution will have considerable weight. And another report of general interest will be that...