Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME is so vital, so alive, so circumspect in selecting the right word that I grieve at your continued use of the obsolete term Tycoon. Why not replace it with Big Shot? Everyone knows what Big Shot means. It is more than slang-it is part of the American language. It would fit in with your telling and picturesque phrases. And even the Big Shots rather thrill at the term Big Shot. E. G. KYTE...
...Columbia Gas & Electric M-K has as an ally one of the biggest natural gas companies. Columbia's properties are in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio. Significant is the fact that M-K has retained its lines in Indiana and Kentucky, vital links should the Columbia-M-K western interests ever wish to connect directly with the Columbia properties in the east...
...Authors examinations to be a vital part of a Harvard education must come when the preparation for them will accomplish its aims, when a study of the classics can precede other study, lay a foundation, give a comprehensive appreciation of the work to come. That time is the beginning of the Sophomore year...
...should be obvious that money is necessary to build up, even to maintain a great faculty. In the past six years and in the next two, Harvard will have disbursed over $30,000,000 towards the improvement of her buildings. It is time to ask a question of vital importance to the University. When is provision going to be made to insure a corresponding advance in the quality of Harvard's faculty...
...actual conditions go here in Massachusetts, would have the advantage of serving notice to the rest of the country that the voters of one of its most populous states had become convinced that the present Prohibition situation was far from being the best solution to the vital difficult problem of intemperance...