Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which is by way of explaining that a pleasant, fluent style can make excellent reading out of what is essentially true. And this is what Mr. Walling has done in "Murder at the Keyhole". He has created characters of a really living and vital type, the sort of people one meets in everyday life, and it is this fact more than anything else that places "Murder at the Keyhole" distinctly above most...
...course, one vital requirement of men who would succeed in production work is the ability to handle men as well as to handle the processes. Leadership ability, when properly combined with technical skill, is, in my opinion, the most essential attribute of the successful shop superintendent or plant manager...
...measure neared a vote, last week, General Smuts flayed General Hertzog for dragging the great and vital "race question" into party politics. Every South African election is bound to be just another dogfight between Generals Hertzog and Smuts; but there is indeed something awful and "above party" about the fact that throughout the Union of South Africa white skins are in a minority of one to four. That is the "race question," and it may well trouble every British paleface from the King-Emperor down...
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, onetime Executive Editor of the New York World: "It is hard to believe that one so vital, so young, so interested in the adventure of life is now only a memory. I am proud that I gave him his journalistic start and I like to think I was able now and then to help him with suggestions. His ability was deep, nature was considerate. He died in the midst of an unfold that promised much. His friendship, warm and stimulating was a privilege. His best memorial is TIME, which he so largely created...
...Committee. Election of R. C. Holmes, President of Texas Corp., to head a committee of 80 oil-executives was last week announced by the American Petroleum Institute. The Holmes committee is charged with the difficult and vital function of determining some method of restricting oil production. The main committee is divided into four regional committees...