Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...weary are at rest" was by no means common among people of the lower cultus. A striking example of the idea of continuance was found in the Fiji Islands, where a son, through the highest motives of filial duty, put his own mother to death when her strength and vigor were yet unimpaired, in order that she might enter the spirit life in full possession of her bodily faculties...
...practice of the 'varsity football eleven yesterday afternoon showed but little improvement over Saturday's wretched exhibition. Ex-Capt. Waters coached the team and in the second half succeeded in putting considerable snap and vigor into the play. Several changes in the make-up were made. Hennan was put at left guard on the first eleven and Manahan resumed his old position of tackle, Hallowell playing on the second. Knox '98 showed up fairly well at halfback on the second eleven, considering that it was his first day on the 'varsity squad...
...University, and the days that followed were filled with anxious forebodings. Now that the last hope has gone, there is universal mourning both by the faculty and the students. Nothing is more tragic than that a life should be cut off just as it was growing into its full vigor, when the powers that had been gathering for a score of years were making ready for actual work in the life of the world, when all had promise and the fulfillment seemed just beyond. Few years have passed since the University underwent similar suffering. It is such events as these...
Football, besides forming sound bodies and better standards of morality, has another advantage of great account, and this is the spirit of enthusiasm which it stimulates. It teaches a man self reliance, and gives him courage to bear up under defeat, and to try anew with fresh vigor. The danger in playing football is certainly no greater than in many of the other good out-door sports such as polo, and no out-door game is worth a rap into which no accident or mishap could possibly find...
There are three characteristics of modern decoration which deserve especial attention; the quality of vigor, homogeneousness of decoration, and violent foreshortening. Vigor, which has hardly received its fair share of attention, is a feature of decoration which the ancient artists greatly underrated and by exaggerating the importance of each muscle and member of the human frame greatly diminished the effectiveness of their ensemble. The modern artist has learned that simplicity is the most forcible mode of expressing vigor...