Word: vital
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pains and organization, not to mention heroism, involved in the maintenance of the medical service at the front. If for this alone the book should be read. Dr. Derby has, however, done much more than tell us of his own arm of the service; he has given a very vital and vivid picture of the 2nd Division...
...Another vital change in the code is that which discards entirely the old method of scoring. Instead of the old way, it provides a 1-2-3 method that will make such a score as 15-love only a memory. The proposed change reads as follows...
...colleges if the machinery by means of which the coming ballot is to be taken should be perpetuated. The Government would receive aid in determining, its policy from a well-informed part of its society. The colleges, for their part, would benefit from a greater discussion of vital problems, and a stimulus to such discussion would be provided by a permanent forum of college opinion...
...wonder is that there are still some men in college who have not joined, This meeting tonight must convince of their folly those who still have doubts as to the advisability of membership. The Union can no longer be ignored. It has re-created for itself a vital place in college affairs...
...President does not hedge on the issues facing the nation; there is no beating around the bush. He suggests the budget system as a vital need in this time of vast expenditures. The necessity of such a system has been long realized; it has been blocked right along by the "pork-barrel" specialists in the House. The question of simplified income taxes shows that while the President has been in the sick-bed he has not lost the "common touch." He comes out in favor of a tariff revision that will enable foreign countries to pay off their vast debts...