Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Robinson was not a bit pleased when he learned of Missouri's victory over Chicago. He gave the squad a brief talk and said: "That means that you fellows will have your hands full. An unexpected licking is a vital tonic. Teams which experience one almost always come back with their best brand of play. There's no over-confidence, no carelessness or other hampering features to their play. You'll find a fighting team facing you and you'll have to play your heads...
Professor Osterhout's investigations of such fundamental life processes as injury, recovery, and death have brought him to the conclusions which are only now to be made public. In a theory by means of which definite predictions can be made concerning vital problems, he promises a significant contribution to medical science. This research he has carried on with the aid of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. When he goes to New York to become head of the Institute, he carries with him the interest and good wishes of the University for the continuance of his success...
...truth. Others see in him a dangerous radical, advocate of a convenient, but self-destroying, morality. But whatever the individual judgment, one must see that, as this dynamic devotee of a new order breaks with the existing system of creed and sect, an event is taking place fraught with vital consequences in the coming moral and religious life of the nation...
During the year 1923-24 the society conducted a Prize Essay Contest in the high and secondary schools of the United States as an educational project intended to create a better appreciation of the vital importance of chemistry in the national life of this country. The contest was very successful, over 500,000 students of high school grade from all over the country participated. As a result of the success of last year's contest, Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan of New York city have provided funds, not only to duplicate the high school contest this year...
...never opened his mouth through years of hysteria and persecution in defense of rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, a document which he seems solicitous to defend not when it is in danger of suspension, but only when it is in need of orderly and vital amendment...