Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GLENCAIRN-Further plays of O'Neill. These are the earlier sea stories, written when his talent first began to stir and stretch its salty vigor in the Theatre...
Graphic readers read this editorial, attacked the puzzles with renewed vigor, continued to copy their answers from the Bronx Home News, which continued to publish them...
...courts is one more bit of distressing news to their elders that youth will be served in sports. There was a belief a few years ago, when men with hair a little sparse were setting the pace, that the game offered an exception to the rule that youth and vigor usually triumph in vigorous competitive pastimes. The argument ran that a boy of twenty was not canny enough to excell, that many years of ripening experience were essential. When Hewitt Morgan became state and almost national champion a while ago, the elders talked of freaks and all that. But last...
...same tendency echoed in the academic sphere. I was struck by the excellence, the vigor and the competence with which affairs relating to the world of action are handled. I found that everyone could use a typewriter and drive an automobile. I found that drives for money were made on a vast scale and with a success undreamed of in England. I found that the applied sciences, such as medicine and engineering and agriculture, and the vocational studies, such as law. are at their best taught (and learned!) far better than anywhere in England. But when it came to what...
...living therein, two elections coming in each state every three years. Last week, Dr. Frank Aydelotte, President of Swarthmore College and American secretary to the Rhodes trustees, announced the names of 32 appointees chosen from 507 candidates on the customary three-fold basis of "character, intellectual ability and physical vigor...