Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this interest in a football game? Since the renewal of football relations in 1922 between Dartmouth and Harvard, the games played have been symbolic of the finest relations that can exist between colleges. The teams, reflecting the spirit of their colleges, play good, clean, hard, football. The stands reflecting this same spirit, support their teams with the finest sportsmanship which is due them. Dartmouth men come to see these games of unexcelled sportsmanship and to pack their team with a spirit of fine play...
...considerably inebriated Sly is amusing to a high degree. Lastly, a word must be said for the stage settings. Extremely simple, composed largely of curtains with here and there a snatch of landscape or a facade, they are undeniably beautiful and go no little way toward carrying out the spirit in which the entire performance is conceived
...line, whose presence was hardly noticeable against Purdue, showed the most startling improvement. The Crimson forwards mopped up in workman-like fashion on most plays and were mopped up on a very small minority of plays. An epitome of the new spirit in the line was presented in the second period. Drais, Holy Cross end, took a long pass from Ryan and was thrown on the three-yard chalk-mark. For three downs the wall of Crimson jerseys held like a concrete abutment, and Clancy had to divenover the scrimmage line to tally the Purple's only points...
...scenes of intense vividness are many. Not only is there a brutally distinct picture of the guillotine, but a first-hand description of being guillotined. At this point the author's imagination reaches its greatest height. The spirit aloofly observes the physical phenomena of the body just before it climbs the scaffold. It watches the blade descend, sees the twitching limbs left on the board and the staring eyes of the head in the bloody basket. Then as a vitreous transparent body, seeing and hearing, but not feeling, he travels the world in a search for the mating humans...
...spirit of the book is one of complete disdain for death. Knowing as he does, that his expiration means merely a transition unchecked by fear of retribution. Hence he sweeps through the pages with a colorful vigor; a complete libertine and a consummate lover. Though the cold perspiration of death stands on his body, his spirit has only the taunt: "Non Omnis Moriar--not all of me shall...