Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons why women do not strike more are common knowledge: 1) Women's work is mainly unskilled, and therefore women workers are usually easy to replace. 2) Many women workers get free board at home or are otherwise not entirely self-dependent, so that wages are not as vital a concern to them as to most male workers. 3) Many women workers enter industry for only a short time in their youth, so that there is a large turnover in their ranks which hinders thorough organization...
...been twice renewed for five years, in 1913 and 1918, and the third renewal is for the same duration. The treaty provides that any legal disputes which cannot be settled by diplomacy shall be submitted to the Hague Court of Arbitration-provided that the matter does not affect the "vital interests, the independence or the honor of the two contracting States." A new feature embodied in the last renewal is an exchange of notes, whereby if the United States becomes a member of the World Court, the two Governments will consider submitting disputes to that body instead...
...Georges Theunis (Catholic Party) became Premier and Minister of Finance on December 14, 1921. He has always shown himself inclined to moderation, and since the first two months of the Ruhr occupation he has strongly advocated a policy of British friendship, which he declared was vital to Belgian liberty...
...lives he has not failed unless he believes that he has failed. Mark! believes that he has failed, or perhaps one ought to say believes that he is a failure, not is convinced that some particular effort, adventure or plan of his has failed. The difference is vital. The man who runs his head repeatedly into the same stone wall has the kind of head least likely to be affected by the process. He shows perseverance, but not determination to succeed. Wisdom consists in changing the method as the result of experience while retaining the object; or to state...
...vital problem remains; that of the deficit which has been annually incurred and annually paid by the University. Next year an attempt will be made to put the management of the Union on a more scientific basis, while the membership will probably be increased by the new method of counting men as members until they resign. With a clear recognition of its dual purpose and with a prospect for better financial condition, the Union may look forward to a successful future...