Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vital fact in the coming election which has been conveniently glossed over for some time by the Republican high command is the question of the personal qualifications of its nominees. Who are the men underneath the medals and ribbons? What are their records? Why are they being presented to the American people as candidates for high office...
...consequence, successful dances have become a point of vital import. In the past there have been mad scrambles for the most favorable dates, a rush for orchestras and tendency towards higher-priced bands which could not always be reasonably afforded, and contests in ticket scalping and advertising...
...channels, it being felt that such papers would be more useful to Scholars if published in the usual technical journals. The four volumes to be published by the University will be edited by a committee consisting of Dumas Malone, Director of the University Press, Edwin, B. Wilson, professor of Vital Statistics, and Mr. Greene. Records of Event...
...doesn't like military academies and he says so with vigor and bitterness. Out of the raging violence of his indignation there arise the virtue and the weakness of his play. Amid the early season trivialities of the theater, with no play-wright seemingly concerned with any idea more vital than that an actress should stick to acting, there is something a bit exciting in the sight of a dramatist in deadly earnest, with a chip on his shoulder and his soul filled with the conviction that the institution he deplores is a national menace...
...makes for the sort of vital sincerity that is an important in the drama, even though you may be inclined to suspect that the matter under discussion has been taken a trifle overseriously...