Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concluded diplomatically, "if anything should occur to mar the present friendly feeling which Australians have for Americans. The United States is Australia's model. We study everything you do and endeavor to imitate you to the best advantage. We have the greatest admiration for Ameri can spirit and vigor, and American methods generally. We want to be like Americans. It seems to me that the wise thing would be for our two countries to get closer and closer together...
...Barlow took the advice, left for Washington prepared to agitate his claims with redoubled vigor...
...Christmas? Speaking with vigor and emotion Dr. Stresemann urged that the Allied troops be withdrawn from the Rhineland by Christmas...
...increases in gross income as from decreases in operating costs. Railroads are being more efficiently run, and by more capable managers. Nor is there any more typical example of the modern rail executive than Southern Pacific's Paul Shoup, man most responsible for Southern Pacific's present scope and vigor...
...where they encountered a defensive force of 200,000. A fierce engagement on a 40-mile front ensued. The U. S. centre was badly broken. Mt. Holly and Camp Dix fell. Trenton was bombed to bits. Philadelphia and New York lay open to attack. Then with supreme courage and vigor the U. S. forces rallied and in a fine display of open warfare threw themselves savagely upon the enemy, driving him back and back. All losses were recovered. A "lemon squeezer" movement was being applied to the invaders when an armistice ended the "war," leaving 43,750 dead and wounded...