Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next to food and clothing, the housing of a nation is its most vital problem. . . . The sentiment for home ownership is embedded in the American heart [of] millions of people who dwell in tenements, apartments and rented rows of solid brick. . . . This aspiration penetrates the heart of our national wellbeing. It makes for happier married life. It makes for better children. It makes for courage to meet the battle of life. . . . There is a wide distinction between homes and mere housing. Those immortal ballads, 'Home, Sweet Home,' 'My Old Kentucky Home' and 'The Little Grey...
...less vital difference in the two systems lies in Culbertson's strong preference for an opening suit bid as opposed to an opening no-trump bid. In estimating the trick-taking possibilities of high cards, Culbertson counts ace. king and queen in one suit as two tricks, Lenz counts the same holding as three...
...Description of men, and as the same should be extended to the wise & virtuous of what ever degree." It had brought as concrete results, an inter-change of ideas with other chapters; the institution of Anniversary Meetings in which the greatest of Harvard's graduates brought new and vital thoughts to the University; the establishment in 1785 of a library for the use of the Society; the foundation in 1797 of a fund "to relieve those members of our brotherhood, whom fortune may distress, to accomodate those who may wish for assistance, and in general, to extend the advantages which...
...date" in modern eyes, stood as an ideal to young Americans of the nineties. But bit by bit "Life" had to die because it could not change its temper when chafing-dishes were banished from the sideboards of America for juniper drops and bitters. All that was still vital in "Life" was appropriated five years ago by the "New Yorker," and seasoned with the urbanities of a new Manhattan cocktail...
What Dr. Charles H. Maye, the famous surgeon, remarked last week about the future of education is of vital interest. He says that the whole educational system of today must change if it is to prepare the youth for the future. Among a number of things in modern education, he deplores the absence of training in thinking...