Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON nearly a month ago, for a graduate school guadrangle similar to that at Yale is a real one, and in the light of the more than gradual trend of Harvard University toward the House Plan, houses for graduate students are not only a welcome solution to a vital problem but a consistent...
...they burst out with explosive energy. But when disciplined willingly and intelligently, they may provide the motive power to carry human culture and human happiness to the new high levels of the future. . . . Orderliness, obedience, conformity, chastity, monogamy, such ideals are valid only if they promote deeper and more vital values; only if they serve to bring personalities into blossom; only if they call out to the full the possibilities of the self; only if they make for rich, intense, growing, creative experience. Morality must be a means, not an end." ? Professor Hornell Hart of Bryn Mawr...
Round nails supplanted square nails; welding is taking the place of rivets. Yet brash would seem the man who would change the other vital method of joining parts to parts, the nut & bolt. As old as the Christian era is the principle of the screwthread, discovered by Archimedes, elaborated by Hero of Alexandria. But bolting is far from perfect. Vibration shakes loose the tightest of nuts, and just as for want of a nail the battle was lost, many a time for want of a bolt the airplane has crashed, the train has been wrecked, the powerplant shut down...
...second, vital feature of Mr. Dunning's budget is to broaden greatly the list of goods on which Canada extends to the mother country what is called "Imperial Preference." A double-barreled example is agricultural machinery. If shipped from the U. S. it will have to pay from 6 to 20% duties under the Dunning budget, but if shipped from Britain it will enter Canada free by "Imperial Preference...
...letters in its pages that is certain to make it most enjoyable reading. Of his craft, this man, who has been often compared with Conrad, says, "Literature is different. It is not a profession, if we mean by that a means to food and shelter. It is, in a vital sense, a profession of faith; and it is well known that a man's faith evades every new concrete image to which he would reduce it. The most we can say of his faith is that it is expressed in his work, if his work so interests us that...