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...cried, "we are not making poison gas. What are we making? Well, for one thing Schering-Kahlbaum are spending millions of marks to isolate the male sex hormone. Two years ago I predicted that the Nazi Government would do much to restore the German people to their primitive vigor. Most emphatically I am today in the business not of killing men but of curing them. Our hormone experiments are designed to increase manly vigor and courage. Several Berlin policemen have volunteered as subjects and we are making progress...
Thank you very much for your editorial on the Cambridge N.R.A. parade. Your maturer rivals might well imitate occasionally the vigor and the clarity displayed in your attacks on the more obvious absurdities of our public life...
...illustration not only of his dramatic restraint, but of his intellectual honesty and of his deep understanding as well. For, to anyone who knows New England, Eph and Sue are honest 'pictures, they embody all the characteristics and habits, all the simplicity, all the uncouth, rum-drinking, ruddy cheeked vigor which is the badge of your New England fisherman...
...best Sir Josiah could say of U. S. prospects was that "the United States may succeed, in spite of herself, because of her youth and vigor...
...fatuous to paraphrase a philosopher, and reviews of philosophic works are especially futile. Mr. Santayana, furthermore, is the kind of philosopher who seems always to use the right amount of exact words, and thus lends himself to quotation rather than to summary. He needs to be quoted for the vigor of his thought and for the lucidity of his style...