Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occurred to me, if in a generation I could be the means of helping one only of those who have in them that vital spark we call genius I would in fact be helping indirectly a multitude of my fellow...
When Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton and the redoubtable G. B. S. came to words over the relative merits of different types of breakfast foods, they indulged as is their wont, in the discussion of a very serious and vital subject. Mr. Shaw recommended fresh fruits and cereals, which had been demanded by Americans in London, and which contrasted sharply with the traditional British breakfast of bacon and eggs, or some other kind of meat, supported by Mr. Chesterton...
Eighteen States?Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming?joined Missouri in asserting State control over national as well as State and private banks in matters of such vital importance as the establishment of branches...
...bounds; the Allied Commission in control of Germany no longer exists except in name; the Ruhr manoeuvers have served no end; no reparations seem likely to come in during the year; the Experts' Committee which the Premier at first fought stubbornly, is functioning and will unquestionably have a vital effect; Ramsay Macdonald is about to link up with Russia, which Poincare has been implored to do for months past; the U. S. has been alienated by ignoring the debt issue; French prestige in the Near East has lapsed to what it was in 1914, when Liman von Sanders ruled...
...First there is the matter of esprit de corps. Harvard has this to a degree in the different clases, which, however, are too large to have a feeling of unity, and in the clubs, which are too small to affect the whole University. At Oxford each man is a vital part of his college. He sleeps there, studies there, eats there, and has his friends there...