Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the fifty second of the series and brings joy to the hearts of those who have for so long respected the opinions of Joe Forecast '26. For that redoubtable oracle has again crashed through with she truth and nothing but by predicting even such a victory. And in future many more patrons of the diamond sport will take his words to heart, for he has brought no small change into the pockets of those who have believed...
...whoop of joy which Dr. Spinden let out when he found this cupola was good to hear. We had been clearing brush and trees a foot in diamter from the terraces and stairway for several hours. At the risk of a dangerous cave-in he climbed to the top of the temple, where the brush and cactus were so thick that he had hacked for fifteen or twenty minutes before he could discern the outline of the cupoia. I believe his elation did much to convince the Indians helping as that we were not hunting for gold as their kind...
...here is another gift, which please deliver to the little Crown Prince [Peter of Jugoslavia]. It is an American baseball, a symbol of everything which spells joy and happiness to the heart of the American boy. It will remind the Crown Prince that little American boys love him and love the boys of Jugoslavia...
Civilization loves to sun itself in the bleachers while experts exercise Everyone has experienced the thrill of a home run or a touch-down made by another. Much may be said for this division of labor which permits complacent persons the joy of combat at the cost of purely optical exercise. By a simple mental translation, the spectator becomes himself the hero of the hour...
...prophets. He was shipped to Australia at 16?a shotgun cure for chronic appendicitis ?and while teaching school in the desolate bush was "converted," by reading the pragmatic philosophers, the evolutionists and a religiously-minded biologist (James Hinton), to a rational mysticism that found no God but much joy in the mechanistic universe. This joy was an artist's joy, "a many-sided and active delight in the wholeness of things"?body, sense, emotion, intellect in harmony...