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...example, if the college were more careful about student testimony in the legislature, that body would not have its present inflated idea of the number of communists in the college. In addition to preventing such stupidly false publicity, the University must spread its own principles and beliefs with more vigor than in the past. It is good that the college believes in freedom of teaching, but it is very good that the public, which has the power of suppressing the college, has the same belief. The extension courses, which bring the faculty into contact with a large body...
...Moon, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, a mild exercise in ingenuity. But how such out-planeters might talk, especially in conversation with men from Hollywood, has lately presented a weighty problem in linguistics. Flash Gordon is fortunate enough to find some English-speaking Martians, but with true comic-strip vigor, he usually manages to make actions speak louder than words...
Among those who watched Arturo Toscanini conduct the last of his eleven NBC broadcasts, was James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, director of American Commercial Alcohol Corp., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Plan Industrial Bank of New York, lecturer on Shakespeare, former heavyweight champion. Impressed by Mr. Toscanini's vigor, he ejaculated: "It would take four heavyweight champions to do it like he does...
...Director Rex Ingram (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) has been on & off stage and screen for almost 20 years, played by far his greatest role as de Lawd in the cinema version of Green Pastures. Forty-two, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, 225 lb., he owes most of the vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand up against a white one. His two main interests...
Both waded through the menu with vigor. Sure helps the appetite, one observed. Yeh, and breaks up a cold quickly too when your lungs aren't all congested, added the other. They paused after their coffee and stared at one another intently. You're looking better, said the one. Yes, and you look healthier, too, agreed his partner, glancing at a friend blowing smoke rings at the next table. The other looked too. Yes, it's better this way, he said without conviction. They exchanged understanding looks...