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Word: vigorously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curator of the Hermanie Museum, said when the gift was announced: "This gift from a member of a family which has done much for the University will give security and continuity to the word of the Germanic Museum and will enable the museum to develop its activities with renewed vigor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $200,000 Endowment to Germanic Museum Fund | 2/7/1950 | See Source »

...Shaw or a Mark Twain. Without being a great novelist, he engaged his readers more directly than his literary betters. In his literary criticism and political essays he pricked, provoked and badgered lazy minds, delighted those who enjoyed watching an original intelligence at work. He wrote English with rare vigor, eschewed frills and cliches, wasted no time in getting to the heart of what mattered. He was an individualist of a rare kind: he wanted other people to be individualists too. He will be missed, if only because he kept begging modern man not to become an ultra-modern slave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Heart of Matters | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Curator of the Germanic Museum, said when the gift was announced; "This gift from a member of a family which has done much for the University will give security and continuity to the work of the Germanic Museum and will enable the museum to develop its activities with renewed vigor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $200,000 Endowment to Germanic Museum Fund | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...recent correspondent in your paper has sustained with vigor the thesis that "the elimination of these discriminatory clauses voluntarily would make it possible for justice and reason to be exercised by the clubs and club-men. It would return the clubs to a position where an intellectually honest person could join them without qualms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/26/1950 | See Source »

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