Word: vigor
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...conception that many men have of Christ's character is a one sided - one. In consequence they feel a condict between their religion and every-day life. They really long to be like the strongest men-of-the-world and to excel in vigor and energy, and they pray to be like one whom they think of as all gentleness. This state of things is palpably wrong, but it results merely from a mistake. The whole remedy lies simply in realizing that the greatest strength the world ever saw underlay the grace of Christ's soul. None but a gigantic...
...feel well and seem to have a larger amount of vigor since they came here. A more confident feeling seems to pervail...
Stroke rows smoothly and uses his legs well, but needs to apply more vigor at both ends of the stroke, and slow his slide a little; 7 rows very roughly, meeting his oar and finishing badly; 6, shoves out, does not control his slide, lifts the boat and does not feather; 5 swings in a circle, does not control his slide, is slow and weak at the catch, jerks his arms into his body, slow in getting his arms away and is ineffective in making the boat go ahead; 4 is apt to lose control of his slide...
...came among us an entire stranger, yet in these few months he has become known to us all. He immediately entered into our work and our interests with that vigor, determination and perfect strength which always characterized him. We first admired his courage and perseverance on the football field. These qualities, with quick intelligence and extraordinary zeal in his college work, gave him one of the fore-most places in his class as a student. Whole-souled, sunny tempered and manly, he won the hearts of all. From admirers we became his friends. We felt sure that while...
...influenced by the ideas of the people with whom it came in contact. This captivity was thought necessary by many of the prophets as a punishment to the Jews for their sins, but throughout all the writings of these prophets, the national existence is guaranteed, as well as increasing vigor in all the real elements of life for ever and ever...