Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect Chancellor Schuschnigg's visit to Paris, whence he would next visit London, was a sort of vital symbol last week of the Great Powers' will to prevent Austria from being absorbed into Nazidom. This will was formally recorded at Rome in the pact of Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval (TIME, Jan. 14), then re-recorded at London in the Franco-British agreement of Premier Flandin with His Majesty's Government (TIME, Feb. 11) . In Paris last week Fascist Schuschnigg, incessantly guarded by popping motorcycle police "à l'Américaine" (a distinct novelty in France...
...music impressed Philadelphians as being astoundingly fresh and vital. Gluck borrowed his characters from Euripides but he gave them new life. His Iphigénie aroused real pity when she prepared to sacrifice herself to the demanding gods. Clytemnestra was a fury as she uttered her defiance. The warrior Achilles provided another stirring climax when he swore to fight the fate that seemed inevitable...
...realize the benefits of such an organization, or who have resigned themselves to their present dormant state to our point of view. The necessity of providing for all commuting students an organization which will give to them those advantages that the House System has given resident students is a vital...
...question of decision or no-decision debates is merely a minor problem for Harvard debating. The larger factors to be considered are, first, some sort of adequate endowment or provision of funds for debating, and, second, an increased student interest in debating activities. Public speaking has become a vital portion of every man's education, and debating offers the opportunity to learn to speak while studying major questions of national interest. Charles B. Fethlemen...
...Securities Commission, are appointed. No one has definite assurance that these boards will not be abolished in a succeeding administration. The present dependency of business on government would seem to indicate, however, that the importance of well-trained officials will become an increasingly vital problem...