Word: robustness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Editor Scott was impressed, promised Cardus the top music spot. But Cardus, never robust, suffered a breakdown. To get him out in the fresh air, the paper sent him to cover the first postwar (1919) cricket matches at the Old Trafford field. He hit a century, and the Guardian appointed him regular "Cricketer...
...wear trunks without tops at the beach. Theoretically, they must cover their chests while walking to the beach, but MDC will not enforce this rule unless bathers are so robust that ungainly folds o flab distort the midriff
...next day, Harry Truman gave his pastor at the First Baptist Church his own explanation for his robust health: "I've had to work so hard all my life I've never had time to get into mischief, and that accounts...
Using carefully chosen short words, the robust young lady, Marguerite Miltzow, politely stated that "I have been informed that your college specializes in the field of camping and outdoor information." The letter arrived at the Outing Club office...
Fortitude Interludes. Contrary to the common belief that Nelson was a "very delicate man," the best evidence is that he was unusually robust. He had a morbid fear of serious illness, and it made him a self-centered hypochondriac; his letters swarmed with such remarks as: "I ... venture to say [that] a very short space of time will send me to that bourne from which none return . . ." To most of his seamen he was the kindest, gentlest hero imaginable; to his Sea Lords he was exasperatingly 'vindictive, suspicious and intolerant. He was as alarmingly unstable as a prima donna...