Word: vigor
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...recently gave out a list of the oldest surviving graduates of Harvard College, men of the classes of '58, '60, '61, '62 and '63; and the astonishing thing about these men, the youngest of whom was old enough to vote in the Congressional elections of 1862, is their amazing vigor and youth...
Eventually the vines of America saved those of Europe and the antipodes. Virile to the point of coarseness, bursting with a health and vigor 100% American, they were rushed to the stricken vineyards of France and upon their robust stalks were grafted delicate, refined French shoots. Thus, by a stupendous paradox the U. S., which was to become dry, enabled France to continue...
...crush a reporter for ornate writing, a caustic city editor bawls, "What do you think you're writing for? A magazine?" The rebuke is pregnant with insulting implication. A newspaperman is jealous of his association with spot news and of the qualities of speed and vigor which he feels set him apart from the magazine "journalist...
...year old director, who has gained world fame for the intense vigor of his use of the newest medium of art, was entirely at ease with the reporters gathered from the metropolitan papers, who hurled questions at him concerning his likes and dislikes of various box office stars. Most of the questions he parried or answered in subtle ambigulties which left the scribes at a loss to understand. True to his idea of how a moving picture should be made, he stated that he would continue to use characters who had impressed him with their faces and not with their...
Well may. Stanford now object to being called "Cornell of the West." No doddard, Stanford continues to grow and to be talked of; has not outlived its vigor...