Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be done, so that the United States Senate will be aware of intelligent criticism if it proposes to meddle with this delicate machine. And yet here is only one phase of the financial problem that needs clarification. The fundamentals of exchange and foreign trade are not so vital to welfare, except that it is chiefly ignorance of them that leads to advocacy of most of the wildcat "--standard" schemes. From top to bottom, a thorough knowledge of economic principles is sadly lacking. As a starter, we recommend Economics A for about 90 percent of the United States Congress. Then...
...Genoa conference, if it materializes is entirely possible. But until the solution of the final problems of the present one is clearly in view and until we have assurance of time to have this country's attitude a planned well ahead-and planned with a knowledge of the vital points of the agenda--no official acceptance may be expected...
...state that a conference which devotes nearly as much, of its time to the discussion of the rules of war, as to disarmament, will result in the abolishment of war. The argument that a merchant marine is a necessity to the nation in time of war is still a vital one, then, in consideration of the question whether or not we should retain our merchant fleet, contrary to Mr. Parson's statement in your communication column on Monday...
...that reason we believe that any talk now about building a new chapel or a new auditorium or a new gymnasium is to be regretted in so far as it will obscure this real and immediate need. As for the graduates, if they could come to understand the vital necessity of decently providing for our new students, they would not hesitate to reject for the present the project of a new chapel or an auditorium and heartily endorse the proposal to build a new quadrangle dormitory...
...distinction of being the only college in New England which will graduate a man without requiring a single hour of English study, expect its students to aim at the ideal of pure speech? College and student are both at fault, and if the ability to speak reputably is a vital part of the well-educated man, then correct speech for its own sake must be emphasized in precept by the college, and in practice by the undergraduates. --Williams Record