Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale is favored by the presence of its expert net-guardian, Curtiss, whose non-chalent impenetrability last Saturday night almost completely check-mated Harvard's most desperate cannonades. A vital factor in the Eli campaign is the availability of Iglehart, brilliant defenseman and goal-getter. Sinus trouble prevented his taking part in the second game and it is extremely dubious whether recovery will be prompt enough to insure a reappearance. Coach Stubbs of Harvard, on the other hand, has his team at full strength...
...even cynical Briand was not deceived by the glib pretenses of the pact, but even so he was eminently the man to gauge its psychological value. More important was the Locarno Treaty, which made an epoch in Franco-German diplomacy, and in which the influence of Streseman was vital. The League of Nations, though not of his creating, has taken deeply the color of his personality, and will in all likelihood continue to move, for both good and evil; along the lines which he marked...
...unfortunate omission in your list of important exports from China. . . . China has always been practically the sole source of supply for Rattan-Reeds, used in the manufacture of Baby Carriages, Reed Furniture, Baskets, etc., at least the first of which I am sure you will agree is of vital importance to the peace and comfort of the rising generation. I believe, therefore, that any list of important commodity exports from China is quite incomplete without mention of Rattan-Reeds...
...covenant ... in deliberate renunciation of any policy of aggression which might tend to interfere with that development." Had Japan by its actions in Manchuria and at Shanghai violated this Nine-Power Treaty? Secretary Stimson apparently thought it had for he wrote: "Recent events . . . have tended to bring home the vital importance of the faithful observance of the covenants. . . . Regardless of cause or responsibility a situation has developed which cannot under any circumstances be reconciled with the obligations of these two treaties [i. e. Nine-Power and Kellogg-Briand]. If the treaties had been faithfully observed such a situation could...
Against this background of decorative chaos, Shanghai Express is refreshingly vital. The story is simple and somewhat absurd. It is the tale of a cosmopolitan group thrown together on the long run from Peiping to Shanghai and of their evolution as individuals under the stress and strain of revolutionary China. To know the plot is not necessary for the appreciation of the picture, as the dramatic importance lies entirely in the development of the characters...