Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general process of relaw for the finals acts and vital prince town will be command as same with a fine disregard of their ultimate destiny in the process or cresting the educated man. In mathematical courses particularly, such as Physics C. Math A, and Engineering Sciences, the student is plagued by the necessity of fixing in mind pages of formulas and their derivations which he will be expected to reproduce on demand when the examination papers are passed...
...written by Lothrop Stoddard, in a manner to prove that Mr. Stoddard was probably living on the northern shore of Baffin Land, or perhaps inside the Mammoth Caverns during the last war. Mr. Stoddard desires with a great earnestness to keep out of the next war, unless "a vital natural interest" (i.e. not that of keeping out of war) is involved. The war danger in America, however, is that there are too many Stoddards, trying to play the Olympian game in diplomacy, and the spoils game in commerce...
Perhaps this suggestion is due to an incomplete understanding of the underlying purpose of the concentration system. In defense, however, I point out the following: That it would be one thing if all the material in each field were vital, significant stuff. But this is patently and pathetically untrue. There is an appalling amount of dead wood in each field, imposed willy-nilly on the concentrator, and of no conceivable significance except to those who require an encyclopedic comprehension of that field...
...method of thinking which enables the student to get immediately to the crux of a problem. The ordinary graduate faces detailed and intricate questions which he must be able to solve. It is not what he learns as much as the way he has learned it which is the vital factor...
Former Premiers Tardieu and Herriot were appointed a committee of two to formulate a plan to reduce France's abnormally high living costs. Toward the very vital problem of parliamentary reform, Deputy Paul Reynaud, like Gastounet Doumergue long an admirer of the British House of Commons, last week advanced two proposals which were immediately approved by the Parliamentary sub-commission...