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...plain good food for at least six months before anyone can possibly expect them to have the strength and vigor and stamina to start a counteroffensive...
...load after load of returning soldiers ... we find 80% of them listen to the gospel with more scepticism than . . . ever ... stay away from religious services . . . with less scruples . . . curse more and with a finesse unbelievable . . . gamble with more avidity and defend it with more vigor . . and find it difficult to hold an extended conversation without defaming womankind, even though unintentionally...
Youthful-looking Herman Bundesen, 63, unorthodox president of Chicago's board of health, suggested that De Kruif's decline might be due to a hormone deficiency. Dr. Bundesen believed that the vitality of men and animals is linked to their sexual vigor. He informed De Kruif that organic chemists had isolated and synthesized the essential product of the male sex glands (the female hormones, estradiol and estrone, had been discovered and put to fruitful use still earlier...
...vitamin pills seemed to have more effect on the worker's mental vigor than on their physical condition; the vitamin eaters got sick just about as often as the others, but they played hooky less often and seemed much keener and happier at their work. The investigators figured that the pills had added the equivalent of 10½ working days a year to each man's output...
...vigor with which Secretary of State Stettinius last week denounced the Russian arrest of the 16 Polish emissaries was but another indication of the changed official U.S. attitude toward Russia...