Word: vigor
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Pictorially said results were superb. Skeptical Hollywood saw wide film applied for the first time to a lusty outdoor theme. Snowstorms, deserts, mountains, prairies loomed up bigger and better than ever. Shots of plunging, thundering animals often took on the composition of good painting and the vigor of fine sculpture. Beauty was mingled cunningly with sweep and strength. Mass found its medium...
Conspicuously absent was Winona Lake's most famed citizen, Presbyterian Evangelist William Ashley Sunday, 66. In recent years Mr. Sunday's vigor has diminished. He no longer exhorts as dramatically as in his heyday just after the War. Early last week he addressed the Miami Valley Chautauqua near Dayton, Ohio. Thence he hastened, past Winona Lake, to another of his homes in Hood River Valley...
...from Achaemenian and Sassanian times, sculpture, architectural and ornamental detail, friezes, ceramics, enamel, glassware, brocades, velvets, tapestries, gold and silver work, a unique collection of Saljuk silverware, gold and silver inlay, lacquer work. Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed in Luristan Province by Dr. Friedrich Sarre, famed Berlin archeologist...
...crusading army of ten million into central Asia. Economic systems faltered. Workmen abandoned their labors. Women became untamed sexual aggressors. Problems that would occupy 20 volumes are dismissed in sentences. Nations perish in a paragraph, continents in a chapter. Each phase of the debacle is outlined with unflagging vigor and a wild flow of words. Finally Phaeton Andrews, last man to survive, after a voyage from rotting New York to savage England, ages slowly to his death in 2027, his mind a strange confusion of scraps of philosophy, politics, sociology, psychology, erotica, all the arts and sciences, in consonance with...
...trunks full of documents waited outside the courtroom doors during later sessions. They were evidences in the challenging of proxies, which the Eaton lawyers went about with great vim & vigor. After challenging proxies for a total of 128,400 shares in one day, the Eaton forces declared that they were ready to challenge "thousands more" even hinted at attacking the constitutionality of the Ohio corporation code under which the merger was ratified. The $800,000 loan by Bethlehem to Cleveland's Pickands, Mather & Co. for the purpose of buying Youngstown stock, which has been the King Charles...