Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete, the committee on vocational Guidance is now bending its efforts in organizing the individual conference work which will follow the lectures. From the point of view of constructive aid in helping members of the University select a career, these personal conferences subsequent to the lectures constitute the most vital phase of the committee's work...
Owing to the destruction of the Irish railroads by the Republican Irregulars, camouflaged armored cars running at reduced speed are being operated in an effort to keep the most vital lines in the country open...
...They ridicule France's attitude with regard to the Ruhr and spare no opportunity to cover that nation with caustic criticism. They have informed the Allies that they will accept no settlement of the Memel question unless they are consulted, holding that the port of Memel is of vital interest to Russian trade. With regard to the disturbance in the Vilna district, Russia openly accuses France of stirring up trouble by lending the Poles $25,000,000. It is a notorious fact that the government is spending great sums upon Communist propaganda abroad, in Ireland, for example. They seem...
Again Science comes to the rescue. This time it is the American Swiss cheese industry, which was threatened with ruin. The vital problem, explained by Professor Whitman of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, is to determine "without cutting open the cheese, when the holes are of proper size." It is easy to understand the gravity of this matter. Everyone who has had experience with the Swiss cheese of the good old-fashioned sort realizes that the holes are quite the most important part--absolutely essential, in fact, to the appearance, edibility and general atmosphere. Moreover, any cheese without the requisite number...
...Story telling, he said, "is a vital job, and the author is not a person who invents stories, but an artist, sensitive enough to feed the concepts of his mind and leave them into a form of beauty". He explained further that the novelist is bound by the tradition of his profession and by the knowledge of his technique. And this technique names from such a love of his material that he does not dare to hurt...