Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before all Italy was aroused last week by the screech of Fascist sirens and the clang of Catholic church bells rung by special permission of the Pope, quiet Professor Felice Guarneri had matters of vital moment to discuss in his snug Roman office at the Ministry of Finance. One day last June the Professor was abruptly summoned by the Dictator, given absolute control over Italy's exports & imports. Since then no Italian has been able to get foreign exchange with which to buy anything abroad without Guarneri's O. K. No other man alive knows so much...
...that game Jackson, Lane, Moseley, and Kelly, all vital to the team, were sent off the field in succession. The first two have remained on the sidelines. Kelly has worked with the team this week and will start. Moseley is more than questionable as a starter...
Ensued no great hunt but an extremely vital three-power conference on the situation created when Soviet Russia made a pact with the Czechoslovak Republic under which, if Russia is attacked, Red planes will be able to operate from Czech bases within striking distance of Germany and Poland (TIME, May 27). The Rominten conference last week was tentative and ultra hush-hush, but Eastern European wiseacres assumed that on the fire was a German-Polish-Hungarian air pact sure to enrage Moscow and of fateful significance in Vienna, where Austria's government keeps wondering just how long it will...
...question of tutorial guidance probably receives more attention as an abstract issue than as a vital problem which every freshman sooner or later has to face squarely. One thinks of a tutor as a person who requires work at more or less regular intervals, but the student generally forgets that the tutorial session involves rather more than the mere giving and receiving of factual knowledge. Two minds must cooperate to the utmost if there is to be a real benefit to the student...
...Duse, who appeared with a genius in tow, a grim, self-assured, masculine-appearing girl who immediately began chasing her hostess all over the house and garden. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas appeared, as well as Gordon Craig and a host of others less eminent but no less vital, most of them distinguished by a love of art and sultry, frustrated passion...