Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died alone, at 44, shadowed by broken hopes, crying, "Let's fight on!" His comrades, echoing his cry, shouted of new vigor, new conquests to Communism. They saw one more hope, one more strong leader gone from a cause which, in the U. S., is, at least for the present, hopeless, leaderless...
Dictator-Premier Carlos Ibanez, bantam Mussolini, bestirred himself with more than wonted vigor throughout the week...
...time to break the Red influence of Moscow! [This referred to a few recent speeches in the Chamber by Deputies with radical leanings.] The way to break the strangling grip of Red Communism is to inject new blood into the Cabinet. . . . We must have new Ministers of greater vigor...
...periods swell with the breadth and abundance of the unspoiled continent, and with the vigor of a man who could live on it unsheltered. Yet they do not swell over in boasts, exaggeration or exclamatory wind. They have the sweep of Hermann Melville tempered by quiet judgment and an explorer's interest. When Daniel Boone tells a story he is introduced calmly as "a remarkable individual." A charging black bear is made no more ferocious than it seemed to a man who had slain many specimens and knew they were primarily vegetarians. The devouring of a Negro by wolves...
...strange to see the disciple swallow the master in a way that old Friedrich never swallowed anyone or anything. This over-adulation occupies a minor part of the book, however. In the main, the author expounds and explains the criticism and philosophy of Nietzsche with admirable clarity and vigor...