Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hear of Mr. Camp's death. He has known Mr. Camp for many years as a Yale coach and in his later advisory capacity. "The passing of Walter Camp", he said, "is a great loss to athletics both in schools and in colleges. He retained in middle life the vigor and the enthusiasms of youth to a remarkable degree. His influence was wide and significant and was always exercised in the best directions...
...vigor with which the Cambridge police force has been prosecuting minor offenders--such as students unable to pay for keeping their cars in a garage--would give the appearance of an alert and efficient protection. Registrar Goodwin, however, has exploded this theory...
...that it appears to give a chance for expression to a tendency which seems to me pernicious, unthinking, and to the last degree unjust. I refer to the tendency of opposition to President Lowell and the Administration, which tendency will assuredly come to life again with renewed vigor now, at the regrettable departure of Dr. Hotson, although there is logically no excuse for its doing so. In cannot see any reason or excuse for such an opposition to an unintelligent criticism of President Lowell. And I feel sure that it is not entirely representative of undergraduate feeling. He has worked...
...buttonhole, bending a benign, florid face upon the inclining Furtwangler. He had just heard him conduct Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, with dignity and power. This Furtwangler well understands Beethoven, presents, in fact, something of an intellectual likeness to him. He has vigor, directness, a scorn of sham that amounts some- times to a scorn of subtlety, and a kind of majesty even-the majesty of the unconcerned. Perhaps that is why the cellists slapped their instruments, Mr. Mackay beamed, the house roared, Furtwängler marched 16 times between the conductor...
...appearances, at a single bound, its derogators have declared that it is an art without .ancestry. It came into-the world, they said, by springing in full evening dress from the forehead of Guy de Maupassant- a birth none the less illegitimate for being miraculous. Its present vigor is no more than the usual embarrassing precocity of the natural born...