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Word: spirit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said for inter varsity competition. It may not be British, but it is invigorating and manly. Annual big games are exciting and fan for both the spectator and participant. They have become American institutions. They are colorful, inspiring, even cultural. They are colossal symbols of our national spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/25/1929 | See Source »

...team would not be appreciated in a quiet manner by the present-day undergraduates. On paper the die is cast against Harvard; on the cinders, in the shot, discuss and hammer circles and in the jumping and vaulting pits the story may be something else again. Everlasting enthusiasm and spirit has been crowned by success in the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARENS PREDICTS YALE WIN, GIVES HARVARD CHANCE | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

...results will be telegraphed across the continent from one institution to the other in order to determine the winner. If this experiment proves successful there might seem to be no reason why the golf team should ever-leave Cambridge to engage an opponent, except that, all the competitive spirit of the contest would be lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAR EXCELLENCE | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

...SPIRIT OF ST. Louis (Picture Idea: plane shedding tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...believe you erroneously forgot to call attention to Mr. Robert P. Lamont's most recent and probably most active business connection-Presi-dent of the American Steel Foundries. In your desire for exactitude for such matters, I hope you will take this in the spirit in which it is meant. H. E. MANDEL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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