Word: esprit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life for Julian and Amanda is an intense jitter of methodical planning to do things which give them no real pleasure. Even their off-hours have to be rationed to the last minute: "SLEEP (for efficiency purposes) 7 hrs. 18 min. ; CONVERSA TION WITH STAFF (for good-will and esprit de corps purposes) 12 min.; TALK WITH BARBER OR MANICURIST (for purpose of man-in-the-street comments on affairs) 15 min.; JOKE with storekeeper (for aid to digestion...
...strengthen army morale. By paying the trainees in non-transferable five year bonds the $20 differences between the $30 a month that draftees get after four months service and the $50 a month which the minimum wage law would guarantee them in private industry, the Administration could boost esprit de corps. Later on the army's pay system might be a good argument for slipping the same medicine to labor...
...York in 1938. Famed as the creator of the Purism movement in modern art, he has exhibited regularly in Paris and other centers since 1910. In France he founded the review "L'Elan" and, in collaboration with Le Corbusier, the famous French architect, he published the review "L'Esprit Nouveau," beginning in 1920. The latter had important influence on the development of modern...
...least among these problems is the sorry plight of the Varsity Club. Not only in need of building repairs, the Club also lacks internal efficiency and esprit de corps. Most letter-men know it merely as an eating place. The report proposes a committee which will supply stimulus for social functions. It will act as a house committee, and also give individual attention to working athletes and their difficulties. Furthermore, it will bring the Varsity Club into the everyday life of the University, with more student and less alumni control...
Apparently one of the factors for this late "blooming" of the Crimson potentialities is due to that intangible something called team morale. Working together, Captain Pren Willetts and Hodder have been trying all season to whip a little esprit de corps into an unusually listless squad, and at last the team the team is snapping out of the Slough of Despond which has handicapped it all year...