Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing with a dash and vigor seldom seen even in championship matches, D. McK. Key '22 and W. P. Dixon '25 gave an exceptionally brilliant exhibition of racquet work in their fierce struggle for the title in the finals of the University Squash tournament Saturday afternoon. The match was tense throughout and it was the super-playing of Key rather than any slump on the part of his opponent that gave victory to the former...
...performance of the Schubert Symphony was a stirring one. This work although nearly one hundred years old, still retains vigor and vitality. If the second movement is too long, the scherzo and finale more than cempensate for it. Mr. Monteux wisely refrained from taking all of the repeats, for fifty minutes of any symphony is quite sufficient to cause an audience to fan itself on the coldest of winter nights...
Boston's election, which takes place today, will probably be decided by a margin of only a few thousand votes. The campaign has been bitter; each side has denounced the other with more than usual vigor; charges of incompetence and dishonesty have been numerous...
...matter of fact, does vitality bear any direct relation to physical vigor? Medical science has not yet furnished a sure prescription for longevity, and centenarians are not necessarily persons distinguished for muscular development in their youth. Coddling the human race in such manner as to "keep alive the weaklings much longer than they would live normally" may, after all, be the best means of increasing the general duration of life. New York World...
Opinions about verse vary; but to me for one, Mr. Lincoln's "Tryst" is the most satisfactory poem in the magazine. I don't know precisely what it means, but I like its swing, its vigor, its easy rhymes, and in fact everything about it except the use of the word "unshaven", which lends an uncouth effect to an otherwise pisturesque description. "The Stockbridge Elms" by Mr. Rogers is charming, and I take it that the strange punctuation in the reviewer's copy is not Mr. Rogers' but the printer's. (One of the rewards of the reviewer...