Word: vigorating
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...Because of the suspension of elections during the war, double the ordinary number of Scholars will be elected in 1920, provided that they come up to the standards set of "(1) qualities of manhood, force of character, and leadership; (2) literary and scholastic ability and attainments; and (3) physical vigor, expressed in interest in outdoor deports and in other ways...
...brief introduction to "Caught by the Turks," a thrilling narrative of war-time adventures as told by Captain Francis Yates-Brown and published by the Macmillan Company. Captain Yates-Brown relates the story of his three years' imprisonment at the hands of the "terrible Turk" with a vigor which Mr. Wister finds indicative of further talent...
...long training, the tense waiting, the terrible hours preceding the second battle of the Marne when the fate of civilization and the Allied cause hung in the balance are all described with an intensity and vigor which carries the reader along with the narrator. The story reaches its climax on November 11th, 1918, and the book concludes with a most entertaining chapter dealing with life and conditions in the Army of Occupation in conquered Germany and an appendix containing an imposing list of citations won by the M. C. Men of the 2nd Division...
...With Roosevelt's balance of physical vigor, mental energy and civic responsibility as an example, the plan as we have drawn it up, stipulates, that the purpose of the organization shall be, in general, to stimulate in schools and colleges the appreciation of the balance of body, brain and spirit in the well-moulded man, and specifically, first, to help the feeble body to become strong; second, to encourage the eager mind to find expression; and third, in the spirit of Roosevelt's practical idealism, to develop intellectual patriotism and the understanding of the duties and opportunities of American citizenship...
...wisdom of reorganizing the Harvard Endowment Fund Campaign on a class team basis will, we hope, be amply justified. Already the drive has taken on new vigor, and at the present rate the quota of fifteen million dollars should be filled by the end of the year...