Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infelicitous falling between the stools of Marx and Mill, has already had occasion to discover that the capitalists will not brook serious interference in the other parts of their program. Surely they will not suffer him, or his successors, to block them in a path so clear and vital as this. POLLUX...
...procedure thus far followed by the office is to invite students to come and discuss their problems. The Consultant may tender some statistics on salaries, or the demands of each type of work. Helpful as these may be, they do not satisfy the most vital need of the student. That need is not so much a knowledge of the conditions in the professions, or in civil engineering, or in salesmanship, for in a general way everyone knows what abilities are demanded. The important question which haunts the minds of hundreds of students is, "Do I possess these abilities...
...emphatically the duty of a vocational guidance service to help the student answer this question, and no Consultant on Careers can rightfully lay claim to the alliterative title unless he offers this vital service. Only one trained in the science of vocational guidance-can do such work. It is a profession by itself, and no person shifted afternoons from Lehman Hall can really fulfill this specialized function. If the University wishes to make anything more than a half-hearted stab at a problem which it has confessed to be important, then it ought to secure the part time services...
...solution offered by Mr. Strachey is obvious enough; when interests are too vital for compromise, each side must mobilize its forces and see the struggle through to its conclusion. If the workers are disunited, and the present diffusion of ownership has militated against their unity, Fascism must be the outcome. Mr. Strachey believes that through Fascism the workers will be united for revolution; and though their work will be rendered difficult by the Fascist abolition of the instruments of democracy, the victory must ultimately be theirs. But an ultimate victory may easily become a Pyrrhie...
...National Recovery tide. For they stood alone against much of that resounding system which made some kind of national recovery a necessity, against the growth of investment banking and the incubation of speculative enterprise. Indeed, there have been indications that they, alone of the mok-a-moks, perceived that vital contradiction which imperilled the economic organism in which their own success was hatched. Over seven years ago, when Henry Ford manufactured his ten millionth motor car, and the moguls of efficiency were prostrate in self gratulation, he ventured to inject a single sour note. His remark was commonplace enough, considered...