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Word: vitality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Press. "In this great work of furthering inter-American understanding, a large responsibility rests upon the press of all countries. . . . By misinterpreting facts, or by carelessness in presenting them in their true light, much damage can be done.? What happens in this hemisphere is of more vital interest to all of us than what happens across any of the oceans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Coolidge Special | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...blaze a clear trail away from such catastrophic industrial follies will be the vital task of the new Conference. After three hours in secret session, last week, the leaders were optimistic. Said Mr. Turner: "Extraordinary successful! . . . The employers' proposals are exceedingly comprehensive. . . . We have entered these conversations without prejudice, committed only to the finding of a just and lasting solution of industrial problems." Said Sir Alfred Mond: "Most hopeful! . . . We have appointed a joint acting committee of investigation'' (to meet under the alternate chairmanship of Mr. Turner and Sir Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Hopeful! | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...points in this transaction the element of fair price and value is vital. German swindlers were proved, last week, to have shipped hops, coal, and seed in short measure to French swindlers who crooked their books to represent these shipments as full measure. From the ultimate sale of such goods the French Government thus realized only a short change value- a value whose spuriousness passed for long unnoticed, due to the immense complexity of reparations accounting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Transfer Frauds | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Between the pudgy, rheumatic yet capable fingers of a great statesman a pen quivered. Aristide Briand was signing, last week, a cablegram to Frank Billings Kellogg. This was the third vital stroke in a game of diplomatic shuttlecock played since last spring between the Foreign Minister of France and the U. S. Secretary of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rebuff Rebuffed | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...Morgan before he became Ambassador to Mexico, it was prudent, nay a pleasure, for Señor Calles to flip flop from one set of ideals to another. He flipped and he flopped, last week, to such good purpose that the Mexican Chamber and Senate took two vital steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Peso Diplomacy | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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