Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have distributed the relief available in a way which will give the greatest benefit 'to the greatest number, and which by increasing the purchasing power of the people will stimulate trade and industry, and I have kept in mind always the vital importance of maintaining the national credit, on which the very existence of the country depends." "Hear, hear!" interjected Austen Chamberlain, twice Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...British representatives this year are again to be Lionel Curtis and Philip Kerr, Lloyd Georgites. Notable omissions of the Institute to date have been its failure to secure intelligent spokesmen for such tremendous political forces as the Soviet Internationale, the Vatican, British Labor. Such omissions are not of vital moment, yet it is pertinent to consider that Russian representation has been limited to the seven-years discredited Tsarist officials, and that the Labor movement of Great Britain is as yet without an exponent or apologist at Williamstown...
...Dental School has always been dependent on the Medical School for its instruction during the first year or more of its course. The support by the Medical School has been of vital importance. Now under Dean Edsall there will be a still more vital cooperation and union...
Nevertheless, there is the patriotic side; and there can be no question of the value of athletes--and most college trained men--to the national service. Athletics, in a sense, imply preparedness of a most vital sort--and conversely, preparedness requires athletics. When the athlete and the military man are combined, the result, by military standards in ideal. Summer training involves a sacrifice, and there is no reason why this should be concealed. But if patriotism means anything, if one feels that one owes a few weeks to fitting one's self for possible service, the sacrifice is certainly worth...
...however, any advance in the thoroughness or effectiveness of education is ever to be made, the impulse has obviously to come from the universities--that is, from the institutions to whom education itself and its possibilities are most vital. The secondary schools,--one may cautiously generalize,--care for little besides preparing, students to pass College Board--examinations. No improvement can reasonably be expected to germinate there. And the primary schools, overloaded as they are with perfectly irresponsible pupils into whom dispairing teachers seek to drill the bare rudiments, cannot be looked to for any spontaneous advance...