Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transmitted to the Assembly and after that there will be a discussion of the action to be taken by the League in the Chaco Dispute. Since to the Harvard delegation has been assigned the task of supporting the Paraguayan side of the question, this event will be of vital interest to them. Then, at 10.30 o'clock will come the first formal meeting of the whole Assembly, at which the president and committee chairman will be elected...
...difficult to define precisely what a major sport is or should be. Mr. Bingham pointed out two years ago that the number of men engaged is not vital, since tennis is not a major sport, and that age is not a necessary factor, since lacrosse, although considerably older than hockey, is still a minor sport. Tradition and the size of the crowd attracted have something to do with the matter, and in any case, a great deal of interest must be shown before any athletic game can be raised to the rank of a major sport...
...about poetry as a kind of writing which requires to be set off by itself and cradled in an arty setting of red velvet to distinguish it from its weaker brethren. In the atmosphere of the Woodberry Memorial, poetry becomes a minor specialty, with no discernible relationship to anything vital, but somehow valuable for sentimental associations. This is an attitude to which a great many people subscribe without feeling that a trip to the third floor of Widener is quite worth the effort involved. Antagonism to this idea receives a crowning justification from the low level of taste revealed...
Henry Ford took occasion last week to announce the next major step in his industrial career. He envisions thousands of small rural factories making Ford parts, largely from farm products. Workers would spend part time in the fields, part in the factory. Only motors and other vital parts would be made in a large central plant. Objects of such decentralization would be operating economy and resuscitation of the farm...
...Christianity* as the groundwork of our entire morality. . . . The National Government will carry out the great work of reorganizing the economic life of our people by means of two great four-year plans: 1) salvation of the German farmer, with the object of maintaining the nourishment and therewith the vital basis of the nation; and 2) salvation of the German worker by a powerful and comprehensive attack on unemployment...