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...been enacted many times before in Harlan Stone's 20 years on the Court, four years and ten months as Chief Justice. Now, at 73, he was the Court's dean as well as its chief. He looked fit. His broad-chinned, wide-mouthed face reflected vigor, good nature and a benign judicial...
With the death of Baron Keynes of Tilton, the world mourns the loss of a poet-philosopher statesman. A position, an influence, an intellectual depth and vigor unrivalled in the modern world were his; his, too, was an ability to commit his thought, often abstruse, into solutions for the concrete working problems of society...
than ever before." Example: "The great revivals in American Protestantism were in their incipient stages during the 18th Century recession and when rationalism, capped by the French Revolution, appeared to be spelling the doom of Christianity." The driving vigor of expanding Christianity, Latourette maintains, has been an "uncompromising loyalty" to the doctrine of Christ's divinity...
...Vassarite. She simply isn't that sorta girl. Newcomer Mark Stevens plays with likable, plain dignity. The attention to veterans and their employment problems is by no means sugarcoated; and when the city itself, or the crummier aspects of its life, dominate the screen, the picture has vigor, beauty and authenticity...
Sears and Ward had long since gone into direct retailing with such vigor that, running more than 600 stores apiece, they were doing 60% of their business in them. But instead of going into general merchandising, where the giants were well entrenchedt Spiegel's started buying up specialty shops geared to its five mailorder departments-women's wear, children's wear, men's clothing and sporting goods, home furnishing, hardware-farm-auto supplies. The firm laid out $5 million for 100 outlets in 1944, $3.2 million for nine others...