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...bigger than his parents. In last week's Nutrition Reviews, Yale's George Raymond Cowgill cast doubt on the advantage of big babies: 1) Is there any advantage in being big? 2) What if quick growth shortens life? 3) Or, if quick growth lengthens life, does prolonged vigor go with the longevity...
...time he believed he had seen the end of an era. But as the tide of war turned, he wrote again with his old vigor. The country felt his weight until he died. Canada had long offered him honors: a Cabinet post, appointment as first Minister to Washington, a knighthood. Dafoe had said: "Me a knight? Why, I tend my own furnace and shovel snow off my porch." He would, he said, remain a writing man. A writing man he died...
...order, and with the proper guarantee of freedom of opinion, we will readjust the political structure of the nation by consulting the Brazilian people amply and definitively. We will choose by preference from working classes the necessary elements of national representation: employers, workers, shopkeepers, farmers-young people full of vigor and hope, capable of carrying out the task of progress...
...John Foster Dulles called upon Christians to regain this faith. He said: "We have been a people of vision and self-confidence. Our founders . . . from the start conceived of their task as of worldwide import. Within a few generations there existed here an area of spiritual, intellectual and economic vigor the like of which the world had never seen...
Modern Standards. When General John J. Pershing inspected the French and British troops in World War I, he found few division commanders over 45, or brigadiers over 40. In July 1917, Pershing sent a blunt cable to the War Department: "Only officers in full mental and physical vigor should be sent here. Contrary course means certain inefficiency in our service. . . . Strongly" recommend condition be fully considered in making high appointments...