Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although many people hailed the latest manifestation of the Watch and Ward Society, as a welcome sign of renewed vigor, those who have followed its course closely must take a different view. It has degenerated sadly from the days when its name struck terror to booksellers who carried the favorite esoteric of the moment in the little safe in the back room. Its decline can be dated from the time when its inordinate 1-st for the purity of letters caused it to descend on the Dunster House Bookstore...
...first three decades of the century the upward trend of automobile production continued at a staggering tempo. Its momentum was only slightly retarded by the deflation of 1921 and its renewed burst of vigor in 1922 speedily regenerated business throughout the land. Each successive year of growth heightened the American Standard of Living and added to the nation's wealth. Cross sections of that upswing showed...
...fear and dazed by gas, when he sees someone crawling toward him in a mask mistakes his rescuer for a German soldier. Director Pabst never stops emphasizing his theme?that for miners, gas and war, not each other, are common enemies? but he does it with a photographic vigor that makes Kameradschaft resemble a brilliant newsreel much more than a dramatized tract. The picture has been successful abroad, where it was released last winter. With English subtitles to translate its sparse dialogue it is likely to enjoy a more limited success...
Paul Sharon, the character about whom the novel is built, is completely human; his healthy vigor, his disgust at shani and hypoerisy, his feeling for beauty, and his strong passion are contested against an inability to come to any decision, much as strength and weakness are opposed in most people. He is an ingenious, attractive lad whose life has been ruined by family heritage, an abnormal childhood, and his chronic incapacity to cope with the situations he comes up against, "Riverhead" deals with the metamorphosis of this last characteristic...
...vigor of the campaign may be, to some minds, sufficient guarantee of the individual candidate's sincerity. But to the average man, there is small patriotic glory in a struggle which has expended thirty millions, called public men from their duties in time of crisis, engendered uneasiness in the minds of the electorate, and which has appealed to emotions at a time when the need was for clear thinking on the issues and personalities involved. The story of the past campaign is not new, but it is unfortunate that it must be repeated at such a time, especially when...