Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a vital, thick-set man with hair ruffled by nervous fingers, lectured in German and chalked hieroglyphics on a lecture room blackboard at University College, Nottingham, England. The Nottingham faculty and many a distinguished guest sat and listened intently, though only three of them could begin to comprehend the discourse. When the man finished they asked him to autograph the blackboard. He complied. Then the wise men of Nottingham had the blackboard varnished and stored away as a memento. The name scrawled on it is Albert Einstein...
Jubilantly last week Leningrad and Moscow newspapers played up the latest, report on world unemployment released by the International Labor Office at Geneva.* According to this vital sheaf of statistics the Soviet Union is the only Great Power in which more men and women have jobs this year than last...
...holding company, which now owns 1,673,250 shares of Niagara-Hudson stock. In addition to his great & good Morgan and Bonbright friends in United Corp., Mr. Carlisle is also associated, through American Superpower (also Bonbright-sponsored holding company) with the utilities controlled by Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell. Considering the vital part that Niagara-Hudson would play in any further consolidation of New York utilities, and the equally vital part to be taken by such utilities in possible developments among Eastern utilities, there remains no question but that Mr. Carlisle has become a great name among great names, a Power among...
...speaking of cooperation between school and college I have not meant to overlook the more vital element of cooperation on the part of the student. The theory that a subject is good for a boy because it is hard and distasteful has long been discredited. The subjects which are difficult and abstract should indeed be taught in as interesting a manner as possible; and the boy whose inaptitude for them has been clearly demonstrated should not be forced to continue. But the modicum of truth remains that progress does not regularly take place along the line of least resistance. Unless...
...Vital to Canada has been the need of rehabilitating British Empire Steel. In scope and assets the company is second only to the Dominion's two railroads. Practically the entire industrial life of Nova Scotia depends on it. Yet the task has been tremendous. A great funded debt, some of it with large accrued interest, preferred stock in arrears, receivership suits and bank liens have complicated the problem. And added to this has been the rivalry between the steel and coal interests, each fearful of the other. A pleasing coincidence to Englishmen was the fact that strong hands in both...