Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these are not the most vital reasons. Far more cogent is the gradual realization that all professors and school masters are not absent minded nonentities, and that the real need is not merely for men but men who have done things. The professions most frequently ridiculed are the very ones which need the best material, and school teaching is no exception. Those who teach because they can do nothing else, fall notoriously in that, as every school boy knows. Only too often, however, necessity leaves to them the payment of "the eternal debt of age to youth--education...
...burdened with more of a certain race than it could support, and found it advisable to ship the offending citizens to some other continent? The plan might be successful if a massacre were the only possible alternative; the world may freeze first. Now, however, the problem of overcrowding is vital both at Lausanne and in America, and will be more easily handled before it assumes these "Asiatic" proportions, than after...
Violently and quickly is the political pendulum swinging. A vital change comes in the policy of the Russian Government, a conservative reaction sweeps England, a Liberal ministry, is overthrown in Germany, a black-shirted dictator arises in Italy. Is the pendulum tending toward equilibrium again or is it becoming magnetized? And in that event on which side is the magnet...
...situation. His primary purpose was to compare their attitude at the beginning and end of his course, but he was interested to find that without exception, they were either indifferent or hostile. Hostility may, or may not be warranted. An indifferent attitude toward the one industry which is most vital to our whole industrial life certainly is not warranted...
Section VI relating to training and contests is of vital importance...