Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weibel hoped that the baby would live, for newborn infants have tremendous vigor. This baby died two hours after delivery. Gossip soon ran through Vienna to the effect that it died because Dr. Weibel had paused for two minutes during the breakdown of the cinema camera. Bureaucrats in the Austrian Ministry of Education heard the talk. The State Secretary, Dr. Pernter, called Dr. Weibei to account. He explained that in eclampsia the child poisons the mother's blood and the mother's blood in turn poisons the child. In this case, said he, "autopsy next day showed conclusively...
With headquarters at the Hotel Somerset in Boston, the Class of 1885 is celebrating its fiftieth reunion with almost as much pomp and vigor as the twenty-fifth reunion class...
Despite these problems the man who opposed this Revolution would be a fool. In this age of changing standards, Harvard must display vigor in adjusting her own to the new world. When the American ideal of individual initiative is threatened by her national government, there is no more fitting place to prove its superiority than by the banks of the Charles. Harvard is grateful for its Paul Revere. While she may criticize individual steps of his program, she will never oppose the spirit and purpose which President Conant has brought to University Hall...
...absolute self-confidence with the ability to handle difficult situations in a manner both charming and graceful. Although it is debatable whether Miss Roger's characterization is on a par with that of Myrna Loy in "The Thin Man," it is certainly true that she maintains throughout a certain vigor and sprightliness which lend color to the plot development. At no point does the interest flag, and the complexity of the situation holds the audience in a continual suspense which is climaxed by the dramatic ending of the picture...
...dodged the U. S. Post Office, the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Courts, Better Business Bureaus. Twenty years ago he slipped, was arrested and fined $5,000 and had his sucker list of 500,000 names destroyed for overshouting "Dr. Robinson's Prescription for Nervous Debility, Lack of Vigor, Failing Memory and Lame Back Brought on by Excesses, Unnatural Drains or the Follies of Youth." Publications like the Police Gazette and Baptist Record carried his advertising...