Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Question: "Would you support any party advocating a plan the same as yours?" At this vital, leading question the humorous little Welshman instantly grew grave. His answer-and he chose to answe-would show where Little David stood between the two Goliaths...
...interest to all businessmen, of vital im portance to oilmen, was President Hoover's an nounced decision, last week, to allow no further private development of U. S. -owned oil lands...
Against this, Boston College built up a splendid defense and clearly overwhelmed Harvard on several vital issues, more than enough to convince the judges and audience of their superiority...
...open season for collegiate introspection is in full swing. Not long ago New Haven students came out of the fog and found just where they stood on vital questions of the day. Now Dartmouth's seniors have resorted to the ballot to discover what the dope on this college business really is. There must be a lot of satisfaction in knowing for certain what is what. No excuse then for not being in the mode. Besides, such decisions lend a feeling of solidarity and make for college spirit...
...type of publication made possible by these awards is just as vital to Harvard, the college of Liberal Arts, as the aeronautical experiments carried on further down the river by means of the Guggenheim Foundation. Indeed, the resemblance is far deeper than this mere similarity of proportion, since the modern study of the humanities is really in the scientific manner. The archaeologist, the philologist, the historian must be quite as definitely and concretely trained in his own work as the student of chemical research is in his, and, what is more important, must be nearly as well equipped financially...