Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he reached 80, his friends and relatives were amazed at the continued clarity and vigor of his mind. His bristly sideburns were pure white; wrinkles had deepened and his gold-barred spectacles were made of thicker glass. But he would not reminisce, dodder or preach plaintively like an ordinary old man. "With him," they said, "it is always the next month, the next year, the future of humanity...
...match that afternoon, Tilden's stroking had been sodden and erratic; now frantic, now listless. After a week of brilliance, he had had a sorry relapse, which even the time-worn expedient of playing in his. sock feet to absorb, Anteus-like, some grip and vigor from the moist earth, had failed to dispel. Richards had pressed matters with even fury, dancing securely on his spikes. Tilden, leaping and slipping like a tipsy stork, had withstood him scarely at all. Some people were saying that the theatre* had "gotten" long Will Tilden. Others said: "Nonsense, he will take care...
Thus, with a candid vigor unusual in statesmen, President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico informed the press last week that the Roman Catholic Church (in 1859 reputedly possessed of one-third of all real and personal property in Mexico) would shortly be deprived of all Mexican property whatsoever and its priests expelled from Mexico, under the anti-religious statutes (TIME, July 26) promulgated to take effect July...
...King, a trained engineer, a general of tried experience,† an all-round sportsman and aviator, ripe with the judgment of two score and ten, began at once to exercise his dictatorial power with vigor, discretion, wisdom...
...earth at the advent of gas machinery. But the automotive industry is at a peak, and there are more U. S. farm horses than ever before. Similarly, it is natural to conclude that wireless communication is superseding cable lines. But, last week, the Western Union Co. manifested the continued vigor of its industry, spurred perhaps by radio competition, by landing the Newfoundland shore-end of a new New York-to-London cable costing about $4,000,000, that will be eight times as fast and efficient as any now joining these two cities. At Bay Roberts, 150 Newfoundlanders bundled...