Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feasible in view of the findings to date. Although the Carnegie Foundation's grant of $100,000 is intended to last only until July 1, should Professor Kluckhohn and his executive committee favor continuing the work, further grants will surely be accessible. The University has entered auspiciously into a vital field with a unique, non-political, non-partisan plan. The comprehensive nature of the work augments the hope that the Russian Research Center will find it possible to continue after next July...
...second choices were admitted to Harvard's present Freshman class. But for these exceptions, the man who is forced, for instance, to choose between Harvard and Yale frequently finds himself entirely done out of an education. For most major colleges consider being indicated the first choice as a vital factor in their admissions policy. If his first choice is Harvard, and if Harvard does not accept him, he stands no chance of admittance to Yale, and vice versa. For both Harvard and Yale as well as most other major colleges, consider being selected as first choice as a vital factor...
...people a homeland. The thirty-three-to-thirteen ballot brought truculent howls from the delegates of six Arab states and the threat of a Holy War to preserve the sacred sterility of Palestine's soil. With the passage of this first important legislative decree the United Nations reaches a vital turning point in its history...
...Communists had even cracked south into Central China, after giving the bonfire treatment to long stretches of the vital Lunghai railway. One-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng and some 100,000 men were snug in the rugged Tapieh hills, just northeast of Hankow-a constant menace to the Yangtze valley...
...whole--in terms of "futures," as Kane calls it--it will tend to keep the influx of money organized and smooth. Today, when the percentage of endowment dollars to expenses is lower than it has been for 100 years, such an efficiently managed supply of money is vital, if the University is to be able to meet costs without raising tuition...