Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pact, a crashing French salute boomed for Mr. Stimson's predecessor as Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg; but last week the Leviathan cleared from Cherbourg amid silence, a reminder that although France and Italy signed the more nebulous portions of the Treaty they did not sign its more vital, binding clauses. More than making up for French silence, President Herbert Hoover sent the battleship Texas and four destroyers to blaze a 19-gun salute as the Leviathan neared Manhattan where Police Commissioner Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen greeted the delegates, sped them to Washington...
...sentiments are precisely those that are held by every intelligent, liberal-minded man who fears for the disappearance of these vital elements of university life that are more and more being submerged by the current craze for externals...
...charitarian and other endeavors. Many Princetonians discerned behind this movement the energetic figure of Rev. Robert Russell Wicks, Dean of the University Chapel, who arrived at Princeton two years ago from the Second Church (Congregationalist) of Holyoke, Mass., determined that Princeton's religious life should be enlightened, vital. In his remarks many found several clues as to what religiously-minded Princeton-ians conceive to be the university's religious need...
...flattering and cajoling the house mother and in occupying her mind with high and noble thoughts for whatever length of time is deemed desirable. Not only is this of immediate value but if by chance the entertainment be gastronomic and sufficiently prolonged and varied, it may produce results so vital to the ancient lady that she is not able actively to patrol the chapter house for some days...
Past advances, Dr. Baker's articles says, "may be traced largely to two discoverers: first, that teeth are vitally connected with the two great circulatory systems of the body; and second, that bacteria transplanted from roots of diseased teeth into laboratory animals bring about serious infection in the vital organs. The first conclusion came from the laboratories of eminent dental investigators and was observed through an application of the biological principle called 'vital standing.' The second was discovered by medical pathologists in their search for the effects of focal infection a research carried on in various parts of the world...