Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your editorial finds fault with the airshaft, but fails to advance any reason why there should be no airshaft. Obviously an airshaft is a vital necessity, and what in the face of rain and snow, is less strange than that it should be covered? "Drinking fountains in the slop sinks" is a nasty phrase. yet only a phrase, since, after an inspection, it is noted that, like other drinking fountains, these are placed above sanitary basins to receive the superfluous water. "Mention might be made of the toilets, the lighting, and ventilation in general", but you do not make...
...Much of what they (Syndicalists) say amounts to this: that a minority, consisting of skilled workers in vital industries, can by a strike, make the economic life of the whole country impossible, and can in this way force their will upon the nation," SJ writes Bertrand Russell of the Syndicalists. In other words the rule of the majority as a principle of government is denied...
...belief that our system of government is undesirable it will support the President. With an awakened public there is no danger tha the avowed doctrine of Syndicalists and the doctrine by which the action of the Brotherhoods is justified shall prevail. But if the issue is not realized, the vital nature of the situation grasped, we may awake tomorrow to find government by the people, for the people and of the people a matter of history...
...Haughton '99 was on hand yesterday to help with the signal drill and dummy scrimmage as was L. H. Leary '05, head coach in the first half of the 1916 season. The latter devoted himself mainly to the work of the ends. This is a vital point with the coaching staff at present as Crocker is still out with an injury and will probably be unable to start tomorrow. To fill his place both Janin and Fitts have been tried this week and it is probable that the latter will get first call for tomorrow's contest...
...need were vital or the effect just, we might overlook illogicality. But protection is not at issue--American publishers in a body have said so; and instead of justice, we have a bald attempt to tax anyone who has anything in his head or wants to put it there--the last place where taxation should fall...