Word: vigor
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...stood it? Truthfully, we may answer: well. Our youths have flocked from every state, willing, at least in spirit; our efforts to make up for years of unpreparedness have been honest, though sometimes ineffectual; and, taken all in all, our national spirit has been praiseworthy. It has shown vigor and earnestness but unhappily only too often a complete lack of sober thought...
...English colleges is nearly at a standstill; only a handful of wounded soldiers and physically unfit still work at their old tasks. Many of the colleges have quartered in them some kind of training corps, which change the old atmospheres of academic case to the modern air of military vigor. Apparently the old traditions have been lost forever. But we have the word of the Archbishop of York that in spite of this great change, there is no danger that when the war is over that students will not have the benefits of the long years that have gone before...
...University of Pennsylvania is going ahead with the usual athletic schedule with the feeling that it is an especial duty to the country to promote the physical vigor of the undergraduates by keeping alive an unflagging interest in sports. Quite recently, in an address in New York City, M. J. Pickering, graduate manager of athletics at the University of Pennsylvania, justified this policy by attributing its adoption to the outspoken appeal of the student body for participation in various branches of sport in order that they might fit themselves for military service...
This young lady is the most beautiful and popular of the ex-Czar's daughters, and has been haunted by camera-men and suitors with equal vigor. Many a noble in Europe has pined away because the Grand Duchess did not care for him, but all those romances are things of the past, for this charming young woman has decided that the present Russia is no place for a debutante;--she has determined to cast her lot among us. Fortunately the Grand Duchess has left her family, which has always been a handicap to her, behind...
...spite of the vigor of the German attack, the complete success over the Italians which at first seemed assured has not materialized. Cadorna, by a skillful retreat has extricated his Third Army from its almost hopeless situation beyond the Isonzo, has reestablished his front and has taken up a strong defensive position behind the Tagliamento River. Viewed from a purely strategic point, completely discounting the political element, Italy now occupies a better position than before the attack, surer in defence, and offering more favorable opportunities in some future offensive to make full use of her superiority in men. Henceforth...