Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour has sounded when Paraguay must definitely withstand the invader. Our superior race will throw the invader back across the frontier and reconquer that which is ours. ... As before, when Paraguay gave the world an example of astonishing vigor and valor, so now we must demonstrate that our race retains these virtues of our fighting forefathers. We must repeat history...
...high time to declare in favor of some modern method of conducting our National Conventions. . . . Nominating a candidate in June brings him before the electorate . . . for four solid months. It requires a man of great vigor and great bodily strength to stand the physical strain of it. . . . The conventions should occur about the first week in September...
...obvious attempt to disguise his delivery from the pitching berth, the president of the funsters beard down on the first CRIMSON batters without success. The executive board of the pressmen met the tosses of the Lampoon hurler with increasing vigor, and despite the fact that the bases were loaded, the baselines crowded with short stuttered humorists, CRIMSON runners were able to reach the bases safely each time. The referees, handicapped in their work by the constant orientation of play, did, however, reach the scene of action occasionally in time to penalize the losing team for holding, and for pilling...
...essential issues, whether in history, in literature, or in ethics, the Dunster House Forum has provided a rare occasion for valuable training in dialectic. Socratic dialectic is probably the most neglected mental discipline in the regular college course, and anything which encourages it is a useful stimulant of intellectual vigor...
...Elections Act requiring naturalized citizens ''to take an oath, when voting, that they have not been bribed or corrupted." Mr. Bruhn, pointing out that he himself, a Cabinet Minister, would be obliged to take this "insulting oath" should the measure become law attacked it with such vigor that the clause was dropped. "Countless naturalized citizens," cried the triumphant ex-Swede, "have just as high and just as intelligent an appreciation of British citizenship as has Joshua Hinchliffe...