Word: vigors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends could say in his favor that he had also proved himself an honest and able public servant, with a quick, retentive mind, inexhaustible vigor, and considerable political courage. His point of view, born of the Dust Bowl, was honestly arrived at and stoutly held...
This newspaper will not knuckle under to the fears that are gripping the timid, the small-minded, and the owners of ski resorts; it is just such a super-natural, cosmic crisis that can call forth in the individual a stamina and vigor which transcends ordinary, day-to-day courage. Besides, the Old Farmer's Almanac predicts snow within a week. That's good enough...
Daddy In the Mines. Connolly's answer, which spreads the blame over a wide area, is written lightly, wittily, and with essential gloom. Mr. Shelleyblake's first novel is generated by a youthful vigor and freshness ; it stands out from the tired works of his older contemporaries. The publisher is pleased, and promptly asks Mr. Shelleyblake if he is at work on Opus 2. Mr. Shelleyblake is too shy, or too ambitious, or too much in need of money to admit that having just blown his top in Opus i he hasn't got enough steam...
...Evil Thing." He was to explain later to the House Un-American Activities Committee how Marxism could appeal not only to the bitter young intellectual but to more or less sheltered middle-class persons as well. They were attracted, he said, "by the very vigor of the project." They felt "a great intellectual concern-an almost Christian concern-for the underprivileged, for economic crises, for the problem of war. They say: 'What shall I do?' At that crossroad the evil thing, Communism, lies in wait with a simple answer...
Sunday's New York Times recommended "The Life of Roscoe Pound" to "former Pound students in particular and to lawyers everywhere for the irrepressible intellectual vigor of the life portrayed...