Word: vigor
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...twenty-second, twenty-third consecutive night bombings with no prospect of letup, it became increasingly clear that the Luftwaffe was going for definite targets. By day, the Germans hit not only at and around London docks, power plants, gas works, railroad stations, telephone exchanges, but also went with renewed vigor after ports, industrial cities in the Midlands and north country, even after isolated plants in the open countryside. Late in the afternoon, squads tried to start fires near objectives in London, which would light the way for night bombers. When these beacons failed, the Nazis just dropped their bombs...
Paramecia reproduce mostly by fission -splitting in two-like the smaller and simpler amoebae, but now & then paramecia mate by clinging together in pairs. This seems to put new vigor into the reproductive cycle. Some paramecium pairs come together violently, adhere for 24 to 36 hours. Other matings are gentler, even flirtatious. Dr. Jennings said he had seen pairs nuzzle each other several times, then swim off side by side in graceful spirals, like "couples in a dance." After years of watching these goings-on, Dr. Jennings was willing to carry the origins of social behavior all the way back...
Last week he had many plans for Hunter. What the college lacks in swank, it makes up in vigor. Hunter girls, mostly Jewesses who grew up on the sidewalks of New York, go to college to study. Smart (they must pass stiff entrance tests) and hardworking, they often help support their families while attending college. Many Hunter girls become public-school teachers; some, Macy's salesgirls. But most of them (relatively more than at such a college as Vassar) will be housewives...
...sounded off to the local press on the ability of the U. S. to get on without Paris (TIME, Aug. 19) and of Saks to bring the mode-in-volume to Detroit. Sample sound-off: "We want to be an intimate part of a community which posses such dynamic vigor...
...feeling her creative power had dried up, she had her ovaries stimulated by X-ray and promoted rejuvenation in a novel, Black Oxen (1923). Whatever the source of her second vigor, yellow-haired, red-nailed Octogenarian Atherton has injected a good deal of it into The House of Lee. When the family fortune of the well-bred San Francisco Lees collapses, Lucy Lee, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Edington set about to earn their own livings with glares at Labor and the New Deal. Mrs. Edington rejects a $100,000 cinema offer, strides firmly through her world of clubs...