Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been enacted many times before in Harlan Stone's 20 years on the Court, four years and ten months as Chief Justice. Now, at 73, he was the Court's dean as well as its chief. He looked fit. His broad-chinned, wide-mouthed face reflected vigor, good nature and a benign judicial...
Harlan Stone again read the dissenting opinion. Seldom had he been more impressive or shown more vigor in delivery. His voice was clear and strong as he said: "It is not the function of the Court to disregard the will of Congress in the exercise of its constitutional power...
P.R.B. stood for the "PreRaphaelite Brotherhood." The original Brothers were three Englishmen out of joint with their early Victorian times: William Holman Hunt (21), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (20), John Everett Millais (19). They hoped to recapture the spiritual vigor and simplicity of 14th-and 15th-Century Italian art, and they desired to practice Ruskin's thesis-that esthetic reverence for nature must keep pace with scientific exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master...
...film is made with unshowy, clear intelligence. The playing of Verdi has a vigor, sensitiveness and brilliance which only Toscanini himself, in performances untroubled by the interruptions necessary to his new medium, could excel. And the faces of singers and musicians at work are now amusing, again very moving...
With the death of Baron Keynes of Tilton, the world mourns the loss of a poet-philosopher statesman. A position, an influence, an intellectual depth and vigor unrivalled in the modern world were his; his, too, was an ability to commit his thought, often abstruse, into solutions for the concrete working problems of society...