Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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England was healthy, wealthy, wiser than it knew. Upthrusting middle classes were doing wonders in commerce. All over Europe, Henry's age (1500-1550) was a time bursting with new vigor. Old disciplines were breaking down. New countries were opening up?America, Africa. India. The imaginations of men burned with dreams of gold to be brought back by far-ranging ships. Had there been newspapers then, the following names would have been in the headlines? Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, Copernicus, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Holbein, Cellini, Erasmus, Cranmer, Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, Luther, Rabelais. Machiavelli, Loyola...
...lost but 125,000 lives in the whole struggle, was to settle down upon the basis of receiving through one channel or another four-fifths of the reparations paid by Germany to the countries she had devastated or whose manhood she had slain." Immensely entertaining for their very vigor, the chapters on the Peace Conference are less instructive and certainly less valuable historically than Mr. Churchill's commentary on the outskirts...
...whole move is reported to be indirectly the work of young business men who complained about the late hours of metropolitan night life. Dancing on a crowded floor through the wee small hours of the morning may prepare one for the intricacy of the subway rush, but the vim, vigor, and vitality necessary to close on a million dollar contract with a Chicago potentate comes by a slightly different route. As for the girls, they are on record as merely saying...
...Yokohama, the Canadian Pacific might well advance a claim to "world's greatest" railroad. Its neighbor and chief competitor, the government-controlled Canadian National, has 22,000 miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry Worth Thornton (TIME, Jan. 28) has lifted Canadian National out of the annual deficit class. No deficit problem has Canadian Pacific. In 1928 it showed a net operating income of over $51,000,000 and net earnings of over...
Esparto is a wild grass, growing tall as the bulrush. It flourishes in the sandy parts of northern Africa. It is picked for Papermaker-Publisher Harrison by a small army of Arabs. It is expensive, for the boiling down of the pulp diminishes its bulk by 50%. With the vigor of a true Yorkshireman, Mr. Harrison last week took pains to denounce as an ass an imaginative U. S. reporter who wrote how esparto grass had to be plucked by sweating Negroes, one blade at a time...