Word: vigourousness
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This mass of esoterica, however, (along with a good collection of who dunnits) is not kept stored away, unread and out of use. The intellectual vigour of the Atheneum is testified to by its open shelf system, and the constant use of the alcoves along the walls, where the books are read on huge old-fashioned wooden reading frames, under unshaded bulbs...
...Giants." Expect for a few reflective paragraphs which seem superfluous and some strained metaphors like "The flat, heavy sunlight squirmed inside his head," the writing is fast-moving and clear. The author is stronger near the end where he flavors the story with much of the vigour of a motor marathon...
...Beggar's Opera is a far better film than the name Gay gave his work implies. For any lack in magnificence is more than made up in the vigour of its British balladry...
...correspondents. Northcliffe, who seldom worked from the Times office, harried Editor Dawson by phone, cable and mail from watering places all over the Continent. He bombarded his staff of "weaklings" and "dullards" with denunciations and demands, called himself "the Ogre of Fleet Street," and often signed his orders "Lord Vigour & Venom." Once he cabled: THIS MORNINGS ARTICLE IS ALRIGHT BUT IS LARGELY A RECAPITULATION OF WHAT MY OTHER PAPERS SAID DAYS AGO. THE TIMES SHOULD LEAD AND NOT FOLLOW PUBLIC OPINION...
...search for "a little room of our own" is being pressed with increasing vigour by Yale alumni in this area, it was learned yesterday...