Word: tonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Robinson was not a bit pleased when he learned of Missouri's victory over Chicago. He gave the squad a brief talk and said: "That means that you fellows will have your hands full. An unexpected licking is a vital tonic. Teams which experience one almost always come back with their best brand of play. There's no over-confidence, no carelessness or other hampering features to their play. You'll find a fighting team facing you and you'll have to play your heads...
Author' Timmermans just shouts aloud, in an excess of good spirits, that life at Mother Nature's breast is a glutton's feast for body, mind and soul. It is grand philosophy, stirring tonic for city-pale people. Author Timmermans is Belgian, his gusto unfeigned. The illustrator, Anton Pieck, contributes fetching garnitures, one per page...
...while holding that post was a method of Americanizing aliens. When he granted citizenship he held a reception, with music, speeches, refreshments. He made the newly-fledged, exalted citizens feel important. After only two years he was elevated to the Supreme Court, where his rugged personality lent a certain tonic atmosphere. He was impatient of refinement of argument, preferring by nature a certain blunt honesty of the intellect. He was one of the Justices who dissented when the Child Labor Law was first held unconstitutional. He broke the tradition of the Supreme Court that its members should make no public...
SAINT JOAN-The Theatre Guild reaping further distinction with Bernard Shaw's tonic chronicle of the deadliest female...
...surely die if I took the field. My answer was that I would sooner die on the field as a soldier than be caught in bed. Really, this revolt has improved my health. The change from civilian clothes to my old military uniform seems to have acted as a tonic. I am feeling much better than for many months...