Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world. He moves in it serenely and triumphantly. He is a giant of a novelist, a swift spinner of glowing tales, a man with a passion for accomplishment who has been endowed with sufficient vitality to pursue his images to their creation. Long life to him and his vigor...
...Meiklejohn looks forward to the next century; and while that is a hobby for many who have thoughts on human life at all, it seems to us that here again the author has scored high. Keen analysis of present day situations, intelligent awareness of the lessons of history, and vigor of presentation, carry the reader to the heights and beyond. And, best of all, there is no attempt to say that in 1950 automobiles will have thirty-two cylinders, or that speech will become unnecessary in 1990; no, the article deals, not with the ephemeral, but with the essential...
...Significance. A picture of our own times and the times immediately precedent drawn with astonishing fidelity, vigor and vitality. As faithful and interesting a delineation of at least three segments of present-day American society as could well be desired. Moreover, a book that has the unmistakable breath of life in it ? a book whose reputation may of necessity be transitory because it deals so entirely with current problems ? but a book that nevertheless is in aim and accomplishment excellent, sustained, true...
...tour of Alphonse Marichaud in the foreign field of the written word is extraordinary. Letters to a friend -to a mistress-sharp, vivid, merry, little incidents-characterizations of people, of places as clean and telling as if they were cut on a copper plate-a startling potpourri of wit, vigor, irony, tragedy, acute observation - self-portrait of Marichaud himself that ranks among the few convincing descriptions of genius in recent fiction-all these jostle each other with all the inconsecutiveness of life itself in the pages of The Grand Tour. Beluga caviar for the appreciative, a discriminating and active talent...
With the advent of team B, the Freshmen took up the offense with renewed vigor. In three rushes a first-down had been gained. Two more netted the Freshmen five yards and then Miller, as a climax to his excellent work all afternoon ripped off tackle for a 35-yard run the ended beyond the team B goal. Zarakov kicked the goal. The team B lineup was ends, E. Bradford, Gordon; tackles, Theopold, R. Hubbard; guards, C. Bradford and Daniell; center, Kernan; quarterback, Spalding; backs, Maher, Samborski, and Cordingly...