Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public expenditures. "The country as a whole is demanding with great vigor every possible relief from the burden of every unnecessary public expenditure. Yet notwithstanding this, minority groups of one kind or another, and organizations, some-times almost nation-wide in their ramifications, are making the most determined assaults upon the public treasury. I am advised by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget that careful computation discloses that there are bills pending . . not including the bonus, which would increase the expenditures of the Federal Government for next year by about...
...whole C ahead of their ancestors' but the natural result of the raising of university requirements will inevitably be the tightening up of secondary school requirements and a boosting all along the line of a sagging elementary school system With this done, college work in spite of increased vigor will probably be less difficult to the freshman of the future than it is to the less well-trained new-comer today...
...between men rather than parties. It is generally conceded that the convention in Cleveland will be short and decisively for the renomination of President Coolidge. Not so the New York convention. There the struggle should be long and bitter; but only if a recognized leader of great ability and vigor is chosen--and Governor Smith at present looms large in that capacity--will there be much question of carrying the decision to the House of Representatives...
Political diagnosticians regard the Senator's misfortune as an evil symptom for the third party movement. No other insurgent has equal vim, vigor, vitality. No other has as great a following. Regular Republicans, kneeling by their beds before blowing out the evening candle, murmur: "And may Fighting Bob recover, but let third parties perish in miserable confusion. Amen...
Tall, spare, with wiry hands and, one might almost say, wiry features, William Beebe gives an impression of great nervous vitality and never ceasing vigor. He is direct, quick-thinking, and if his manner appears at times to be fussy, it is doubtless only the manifestation of an excess of energy, and of a consciousness, which he cannot well escape, that he is a good organizer-a thing any man must be to create expeditions for exploration purposes, and not only to create them but to carry them through...