Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chico forthwith became an atheist and went around proclaiming that God owed him fifteen francs. And it must have done some good for eventually God paid the debt. Tormented by a wicked, dope-ridden sister Diane for a time contemplated suicide, but took heart from Chico's robust philosophy of life, and eventually rose to great heights of courage and renunciation. Ann Forrest avoided overdoing this difficult role, and gave the outstanding performance of the evening, and one of the best of this season. W. H. Post was the merry priest, guardian angel of the denizens of the sewer...
...League. At Aix, where Premier Baldwin is vacationing, France and England were prepairing to call in Germany to draw up a Security Pact,† which would largely take the place of the League Protocol. The World stood by and wondered, as statesmen-accoucheurs labored to bring forth a robust infant, Status Quo, in two places at once...
Last week four robust youths, four healthy girls, students at George Washington University, Washington, D. C, offered their bodies to the Medical and Psychological Departments of that college for experimentation. Professors conferred. The specimens were examined. The experiments began. For a day the subjects went about their business as usual. In the evening they were sent to the theatre, after which their blood-pressure was examined. On the afternoon of the second day they went to the country and watched a youngsters' ball game. Then a blood test was taken. Some drove dummy automobiles. Professors sat beside them, observed...
...rigorous Eugenics (including infanticide) ; for masculine will power, leadership and brains "sufficient to overshadow any female brain that is placed alongside;" for reversal of pres ent social values that enable the unfit to draw the fit down to their level; for the development of higher faculties in this new, robust man, especially psychic faculties...
...Four robust youths, four healthy girls...