Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...than the man who has learned to row before, for the latter may not be able to master Wray's stroke after learning something far different. It seems a great pity that a class which has shown up so well in athletics so far should fall down at this crucial time...
...crucial moment has arrived. Let us meet the situation quietly, but united as never before...
...Political Club with the partisan organizations proper, merely with their very apparent energy. In the future at any rate we may expect to see the club take an active part in affairs; and the appeal of our contributor for a wider interest and better support deserves, at this crucial time, a hearty and general response...
Again the captain of the track team has been compelled to issue an appeal for candidates. The situation is the more distressing because the letter is addressed not only to the unknown quantity, but to the men of experience, whose negligence is handicapping the coaches in this most crucial of all years. Now of all times they have no right to rest on their laurels. Every man whose experience or inclination leads him to believe that he can be of the slightest help in developing a winning team, is willfully injuring his own cause and the cause of the whole...
...then given the rank of secretary of embassy, and left the department of foreign affairs for three years to take up the position of secretary to the president of the Council of Ministers. This was a valuable chance to become acquainted with French political circles during a difficult and crucial period. In 1902 he accompanied M. Lonbet, President of the Republic to St. Petersburg...