Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important event in the ever-vital history of athletics has been the report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, entitled "American College Athletics." The report is of a historic and outstanding significance to college sport. It is the most comprehensive gathering of facts ever made, and it is the the most formative in its suggestions for the restoration of athletics to their proper field and function...
Officials of the British raj throughout India indulged last week in considerable delaying, coloring, falsifying and suppressing of vital news...
Falsification. Certainly one of the most vital events of the week was the leading of a non violent march on the Government Salt Works at Dharasana by St. Gandhi's successor as chief of his movement for independence, plump but fiery Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (TIME...
...wife of the pharaoh Ikhnaton, whom she espoused in the 14th Century B. C. She bore him no sons: the name of their son-in-law, Tutankhamun, an effete dilettante famed for the extravagant manner of his burial, is known to every bright U. S. schoolchild. More vital is the significance of Ikhnaton for he was the first recorded monotheist. In a regal frenzy he repudiated Ammon. deity of wealth and power, consecrated himself solely to Aton. the blinding disc of the sun. His was a short-lived but intense faith. Among its effects was the temporary liberation of Egyptian...
...vital part of the statistical matter lies in the fact that Economics is the second most popular subject at Princeton, and that it vies with History for the second place here. That Economics should have such appeal as a subject for concentration is a refutation of the theory of our fathers that Economics as taught in college may be interesting enough, but that the scientific ideals are of no use to the hard-boiled financier. Undergraduates would not specialize in something which they considered mere valueless theory...