Word: vigour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year's figures. Very possibly the change is only a temporary one, or, if permanent, it may be due to other causes than the liberal tendencies of the Department. If, however, it can be shown that it is these latter that are the cause of its renewed vigour, the heads of the Department will have verified for them what they doubtless know already--that progressive methods are as productive of results in education as in any other field...
...Yale could offer more in this direction than we, nor to bewail the loss of a splendid institution. It is for us to recognize an accomplished fact, and to be supremely happy that a movement which many of us cherished so highly is to have new life and added vigour...
...genius. Today British and American body politics are apt to fight shy of the genius and select a leader more nearly representative. To enslave that leader in a mass of details which will possibly cause an untimely death is hardly consistent with humanity. Nor can every statesman have the vigour and vitality of Roosevelt and Lloyd George...
...collector of favor able British types", using favorable in the sense of correct and current. The new landed aristocracy, gross as beer barrels and uncouth as hedge hogs, comes in for a bit of trenchant panning. And the Horatio Bottomleys of Sussex are flayed with but little less vigour...
...good, but it is fully as apt eventually to become a power for evil, so far as the future of the American drama is concerned. We have here now a new school of playwrights turning out work of a distinctive type which bids fair to increase in depth and vigour; should a board of censors whatever its motives, be turned loose in this field, who can foretell the result? It has been shown here in our own Workshop that it takes many years to train an audience to be intelligently critical; what would happen if a group of persons, untrained...