Word: tonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well handled, however, it should accomplish its purpose. It is not a panacea for all the ills of dullness and drudgery. It is more of a tonic to stimulate thought and the growth of new ideas...
...composed of Toronto, Rochester, Newark, Jersey City, Baltimore, Reading, Buffalo and Syracuse and that it plays ball. It will be news to people who think that the Esch-Cummins act is in vaudeville and that Magnus Johnson pitches for the Washington ball club, that La Follette makes a hair tonic and that Borah is a wrestler...
...suit and a hat a hat is passed. Warnings and ridicule of the increasing vanity of man can be laid to despairing editors in dire need of filler who under such circumstances will draw unwarranted conclusions from a single individual rich enough to purchase hair cut, shave, shampoo, and tonic all at once...
...football team is making capital of the defeat by Centre College. They are working harder this week than ever before. The losing of the game is acting not as a poison to crush them, but as a tonic to spur them on. They have the goods with which to win against Princeton, provided the undergraduate body sends and follows the team to Tigertown with one thought--namely an expectancy to retrieve victory. W. H. TRUMBULL...
...have been taught to think straight and whose intellects have been sharpened to analyze and to approach their problems in the scientific spirit. Such men, upon whose theoretical training has been superimposed the stimulating as well as the sobering effects of practical experience, should give the needed tonic to the larger body of men who have not had the same broadening training...