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Word: vigorous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Babble on the Twentieth Century, the Broadway Limited and other trains where city boosters habitually chant the monotonous boasts of their micropolities, had a new vigor, vim, elan last week. A Manhattan sociologist, George J. Hecht,* had, in flaying New York City for its sociological bumptiousness, mentioned many a modest U. S. city by very name and indicated the excellencies whereby it surpassed New York. Health, social service, education supplanted rich men, big buildings, great corporations in the train talk. It became possible to exuberate concerning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exemplar Cities | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...raised the necessary fund and insisted that such an enterprise should be a part of the Department of Psychology in a College rather than in a Medical School. It was Dr. Prince's notion that such a group devoted to a program of scientific research could evolve with more vigor if free from the urgent therapeutic necessities of a psychopathic hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...players seemed to receive new vigor in the third period, for S. A. Pond and A. B. Bacon each scored a goal for Arlington. The score still stood 2 to 2 with only three minutes to play, when J. P. Davis '30, took the puck in the middle of the rink and carried it through the whole opposing team for a winning goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 AND SECONDS WIN OPENING HOCKEY GAMES | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...answer the above question Prime Minister Benito Mussolini moved last week with cold and drastic vigor. In a circular letter received by each Italian podesta (mayor) the Dictator commanded: "Decrowd your city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Decrowd Your City! | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...final personal swan-song was: "I am just as anxious to see them [Democratic principles] succeed as I was when the party honored me with the nomination, and with all the vigor that I can command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: President-Reject | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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