Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Threats are incompatible with the spirit of the League of Nations...
...confirm in the spirit and the letter my former speech, including the final allusion to the Italian flag on the Brenner Pass, which Stresemann can interpret as he will, but which Italians interpret in the sense that Italy will never submit to the violation of treaties of peace which guarantee their frontiers conquered at such a heavy price of blood...
...native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain dream of a Hellas united at least in spirit. The reward of all his tribulations is only fairy gold, but the story of his life is a romance, an historical romance in which the writer has the good sense not to let history run away with her story nor let the story idealize history...
...principles and products of all knowledge. It has added to its traditional strength because it has learned how to organize knowledge in such fashion that the fundamentals of the several fields can be brought to bear upon a given situation in almost any field.... Universities have released the scientific spirit for use in business and in other affairs of life. It is a great service and one for which business, in particular, has shown gratitude." The "Post" develops this, showing the extreme beneficence of business. And then it moves to the evident raison d'etre of the editorial--the proper...
...better to mention the ballet dancer whose knees kept letting her down onto the stage, or the singer who turned a back flip on the final note of the famous aria from Aida, and started clogging directly afterward. But all in all it is hard to express the true spirit of matters bughouse, for Mr. Anderson has done it in such a variety of ways...