Word: vigor
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...vigor is almost overwhelming. He was catcher on his varsity baseball team, is a good fisherman, hunts with the sportsman's single-barreled shotgun, golfs with the natural American combination of a he-man's long drive and a duffer's inability to break...
...political system. We think of Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Francis Drake, or Marlborough, Pitt and Nelson and of the Duke of Wellington; and it is on the ability to keep alive the spirit of adventure and to inject into public opinion new, fanciful and unorthodox ideas that the vigor of national life depends. Nothing could be more ghastly than a uniform cowlike public opinion which is left willing to browse on artificially fertilized fields and chew the cud of common pasture...
...team that is tackling this job for you is headed by Editor Wilder Hobson, author of a highly entertaining history of syncopation, American Jazz Music-a phonograph addict who plays the trombone with more vigor than skill. The Music researcher is Mary Gleason, who studied at Smith, Columbia and Trinity College, Dublin, was secretary to the dean of the American University of Beirut, Syria, and later researched for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in London...
...unparalleled flexibility and by an uninterrupted growth of liberty and respect for law, emerges from the trial in new strength. and events have proven that the ruthless process of the revolution has released the creative, abilities of the Soviet masses and awakened them from age old lethargy to unexpected vigor. The United States will be strong, yet not strong enough to tell everybody what to do and to have bases all over the world, as its super-imperialists desire...
...unparalleled flexibility and by an uninterrupted growth of liberty and respect for law, emerges from the trial in new strength. And events have proven that the ruthless process of the revolution has released the creative abilities of the Soviet masses and awakened them from age-old lethargy to unexpected vigor. The United States will be strong, yet not strong enough to tell everybody what to do and to have bases all over the world, as its super-imperialists desire. This is the first in a series of articles by members of the Faculty and other authorities on problems...