Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Youthful-looking Herman Bundesen, 63, unorthodox president of Chicago's board of health, suggested that De Kruif's decline might be due to a hormone deficiency. Dr. Bundesen believed that the vitality of men and animals is linked to their sexual vigor. He informed De Kruif that organic chemists had isolated and synthesized the essential product of the male sex glands (the female hormones, estradiol and estrone, had been discovered and put to fruitful use still earlier...
...vitamin pills seemed to have more effect on the worker's mental vigor than on their physical condition; the vitamin eaters got sick just about as often as the others, but they played hooky less often and seemed much keener and happier at their work. The investigators figured that the pills had added the equivalent of 10½ working days a year to each man's output...
...President coolly announced the appointment only 24 hours after beet-nosed Mr. McKellar and his Tennessee colleague, Senator Tom Stewart, had called at the White House to try to head it off. Said McKellar: "We protested with all the vigor and zeal we have...
Relief Administrator Hoover had one great advantage: he was the absolute boss, responsible to no one except the President; there were no international complications. But he also moved with vigor and energy...
...vigor with which Secretary of State Stettinius last week denounced the Russian arrest of the 16 Polish emissaries was but another indication of the changed official U.S. attitude toward Russia...