Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other collection of its size. The new Masaccio Crucifixion; last year's edition of the Gozzoli fresco; and this year's notable Fra Angelico, are but examples of the gems which the museum houses. And for those whose taste fails to appreciate madonnas and crucifixions, there are more robust pictures by later masters, Dutch, Spanish and English. The collection from native artists, though small, gives a clue to the type of work done in America past and present; the moderns are well represented in a fine Sargent, a recent gift of the artist...
...armies engaged in the great war? Has so large a proportion of the human race ever before had to endure so much hardship or exhibited an equal capacity for endurance? Did the soldiers of Alexander or Caesar have to meet anything like the rigors of trench warfare? If the robust health of the American Expeditionary Force is a measure of the effects of pampering and hospitalization, the human race might profit from a more general application of such debilitating influences...
...purposes of business and pleasure as a duck takes to the water or, more appositely, as a bird takes wing? These questions are asked vainly by those who have grown up in and with the science of aviation and whose outlook into the future is practical and optimistic and robust as will all true pioneers...
...does involve more than the ordinary subject matter such as is found in average short story magazines of the present day. The person who has never taught himself to hunt out, or con over the books of some of the mighty masters of fiction with their galaxy of robust old speech, and words and philosophy that men have come to venerate and love so much that now they are called classic, then has that individual done his mind and himself a grave injustice. He has denied himself the opportunity to cultivate his mind by the infiltration of rare thoughts...
...More than anything else, Americanism means a belief in the geographical state without class consciousness or antagonism within the state; it means allegiance to this geographical group rather than to any class group, whether religious, occupational, racial or linguistic. It is that robust, self-reliant and energetic, but neighborly attitude, that regards all humanity within reach as neighbors and fellow-citizens; which in the main desires to be let alone, and whose neighborliness consists in the willingness to let its neighbors alone except in a time of need...