Word: spilt
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Coach Jack Baranby's squash team spilt the first six matches with Amberst, then swept the last three in straight sets to win 6-3, at Amherst yesterday...
...tragedy of war or even of civil war than of national character, of all that is left undone in working to achieve a great objective and then is too badly managed to achieve it. For O'Casey, even in 1926, there was still real use in crying over spilt blood. But, never gnawing a thesis, he made his tragedy vibrate with harsh humor and pulse with humanity...
...Spilt Religion. Soon tiring of poetry, Hulme launched a Tuesday night salon at the home of his mistress, where he propounded to "journalists, painters, Irish yaps, American bums" the ideas that would later be posthumously published under the apt title, Speculations. Every civilization, Hulme held, was based on certain assumptions about the nature of man. Modern civilization, he argued, was grounded on Renaissance humanism, with its assumption of man's innate perfectibility. This optimistic view had been compounded by the 19th century's evolutionary belief in cultural continuity and the idea of progress. To this, Hulme opposed...
...romantic view is "that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstances"; the classical "that he is intrinsically limited, but disciplined by order and tradition to something fairly decent. To one party man's nature is like a well, to the other like a bucket." To Hulme, romanticism was "spilt religion": "You don't believe in God, so you begin to believe that man is a god; you don't believe in Heaven, so you begin to believe in heaven on earth." Hulme insisted that the logical extension of romanticism in politics was the idea of liberal progressive...
...cribbed, mitched, spilt ink, rattled his desk...