Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is a particularly vital period in he history of China. Tremendous changes are taking place and education and Christianity are playing parts of constantly growing importance in the new order. The Chinese have a traditional respect for learning and teachers which coupled with their eagerness for foreign education, makes the position of a teacher in China one of great importance...
...napthols. Then disulphonic acid is suggestive of fiery rebuke to iniquitous actions. However, in the abridged forms, proposed by the Herald, much of this significance is lost. Only the complete title does itself justice; and only the complete title attains to a sonorous dignity. This objection is not vital, but years of experience with proof readers, a certaia inherent modesty, and the force of long and powerful tradition preclude the possibilities of any immediate change...
...Administered to humans it produces in 40 seconds a complete anesthesia lasting for four hours, making possible prolonged operations. In Chicago, a certain dog, rendered unconcious daily for several years with ethylene, has yet shown no ill effects. An instrument was exhibited which has power to make visible the vital essence of man's life in the form of a thin flame shaking upon a thread. The electricity generated by the heart is carried to a silver quartz thread hanging in a magnetic field. As the heart strikes in and out, this faint fire shakes and shakes...
...Soviet Russia," he scoffed, "could never agree with the fundamental aim of the League to consolidate the present status of State borders; and we would never permit the League to compel us to submit to arbitration the vital interests of the Soviet Union, as there cannot exist impartial arbitration between the Soviet economic system and capitalistic society...
...been President of the United States I would not only have accepted the invitation to attend the present conference, but I should have insisted upon the right of the United States to be present and take a leading part when matters so vital to ourselves were being dealt with. If I become President I shall favor sending a representative to attend the disarmament conference next June...