Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proper spirit into the training you are now receiving and get the full benefit from it, and then you will be ready when you are needed...
...this spirit of wanting to get in to Government service, may easily be come a kind of hysteria. It is hard to withstand the inclination to follow the line of least resistance. It will take real moral heroism for many men to hold steadily to their present duties. They owe it, however, to themselves, their parents, their friends and their country...
...chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when he was near to oblivion from pain, they applied the torch to the oil-soaked fagots and aroused his spirit to a terrible death in the fire. It is noted that a few urged that he be shot. They should be honored, for they were merciful...
...were exceptional. Hardly a voice was raised in protest against the hundreds who did not. Stupidly good-natured and lackadasical, they were there to see the glitter and color, to hear the bands play, and, quite naturally, to stare at Marshal Joffre. And in the midst of all the spirit of celebration, to the thousands who lined the streets the flag seemed to have no particular significance...
...took part in the formation of that union which was the consummation of his hopes. Perhaps it would not have been worth much more for him to have remained yet a year or a decade seeing the success in achievement of those whom he had helped to unite in spirit. He must have known before he died that such an entente could not fail of any goal it might undertake, however lofty, however distant...