Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Logic", by John Finley Jr., builds upon what is also a sound basis of critical thought. "The really important things," he says, "are those we face daily. A subway ride, for instance, is much more vital than a crisis, a great transaction, and things like that, because people spend more time in the subway than they do in crises. To be interested in crises, which rarely or never occur, and to be bored in the subway seems idiocy to me. So a college which teaches you to be successful in the crisis but a failure at amusing yourself...
...when one gives offense, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to make a frank and manly apology . . . If the Senator desires to apologize and to withdraw what appears to have been a deliberate affront and befouling of his own nest, a discrediting of his constituency, he will have to withdraw the vital parts of his address, in which he charged himself and his colleagues with deliberately committing crimes against the Government and violating moral as well as political principles...
...course, if the guess misses the mark, that is unfortunate, but not vital. If a newspaper hasn't established a reputation for scrupulousness on these little points, there is nothing to lose by a wrong guess...
Deaf. A device to be held in a speaker's hand and attached to the hand of a totally deaf person, which transmits the vital vibrations in the speaker's body to the deaf person, was described. A limited success with the instrument has been achieved.-Dr. Robert H. Gault, Northwestern University...
Wrote a West Virginia Baptist: "I pray God that your fine courage may continue to inspire your pen on these vital subjects...