Word: life-blood
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Whether this young poet shall prove himself a master-spirit it is too early to predict; but surely his book is "the precious life-blood...
Until this recognition is fully achieved, it's position will never equal that of tennis. Competition is the life-blood of any sport, and inter-collegiate competition most of all. But there are signs of an awakening general interest; and other colleges are realizing that the game is worth its candle--the cost and trouble of new courts and equipment, and the efforts of introducing a brand-new sport...
...like ours ought to be able in times of national unemployment to build necessary roads, canals and public buildings, and our Army and Navy so cramp us that we can do none of these things. Business men want the army and navy appropriations slashed, because taxes are sucking the life-blood of our national prosperity. Our representatives in Congress will make no mistake in the eyes of their constituents if they cut the army and navy appropriations to $400,000,000, and thus become able to point to an economy that will be visible without a microscope, while...
...last of these patriots is Edward Dalton, a physician of intelligence, energy, devotion and sweetness, who worked out his life-blood to save that of others...
...metre. Each age is different from all those that preceded it, and is filled with new thoughts, which need a new poetry for their expression. Poets must not shut themselves up away from the world, but must move in the heart of affairs; they must share in the life-blood of the general heart in order to express the whole spirit and burden of their times. The poets of the Elizabethan age took the common idioms and jokes of the people and worked them into forms of enduring beauty, and why should their example not be followed...