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...history of 1940 has taught, among other melancholy lessons, that valor plus vigor do not equal victory. While they took heart at apparent successes, responsible Greeks thought that if their country was to survive despite the odds, it would owe its survival to British assistance and to Italian asininity. And responsible neutral observers could not see how either could be great enough to give Greece anything but a reprieve...
...various racial stocks, which has remained almost unchanged since post-paleolithic days, has suddenly begun remarkable developments in a number of directions. Dr. Seltzer advanced the theory that the Industrial Revolution, providing speedier transportation facilities, has been in part responsible for intermingling of stocks and a consequent "hybrid vigor...
...against men whose only armor was the loin cloth, was no test. Neither was the Italian picnic in southern France. No one knows how enthusiastically the campaign in Egypt has been pursued. But this was war, and all the world was watching. Considering the terrain, the weather, and the vigor of the brave Hellenes, the Italians were doing all right...
Clarence Alonzo Mills, M. D., professor of experimental medicine at the University of Cincinnati, is ruddy, blue-eyed, vigorous, healthy-looking. He has a theory about health and vigor, and he harps on it so much that to owl-eyed colleagues he seems obsessed. For years Dr. Mills has declaimed that climate has a considerable effect on human growth, stature, sex development, disease resistance...
...theme. The tremendous growth of there institutions during the first half of the twentieth century is a unique phenomenon. This growth will be recorded by historians as clear evidence that the optimistic intellectual courage born of the fifteenth century Renaissance was, five centuries later, still driving westward with undiminished vigor...