Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Standard, however, he separates himself from Continental United States. The Company has no plan for men to return to the American branch of the organization. It expects its men in foreign service to remain in the Far East indefinitely. To men of a more or less adventurous spirit who are interested in the possibilities of a large organization which promises good rewards in a distant field, this Company is distinctly deserving of careful investigation
...chance for realization, care can well afford to be taken that artificial barriers are not brought in and raised between the two types of residents. A few measures in the tone of those uttered in the Boston meeting are all that is necessary to completely change the aspect and spirit of Mr. Harkness' original proposal...
...drama of his own experience. "Mr. D. H. Lawrence sees in the conflict a battle between the blood-consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck Brooks has found in the white whale an image like that of Grendel in Beowulf, expressing the Northern consciousness of the hard fight against the elements; while for the disciple of Jung, the white whale is the symbol of the Unconscious which torments...
...ballot to discover what the dope on this college business really is. There must be a lot of satisfaction in knowing for certain what is what. No excuse then for not being in the mode. Besides, such decisions lend a feeling of solidarity and make for college spirit...
Appropriate title for the author's departure from the safe realm of mystery and romance into the dangerous realism of thought and emotion?This Strange Adventure. Any woman?every woman? is the theme; but the particular woman Mrs. Rinehart chooses is a delicate soul, and what little spirit she has is crushed and twisted by circumstance. The proverbially gay '90s are sufficiently Victorian to give "Missie" a sense of duty toward her elders?always she defers to them, always she forfeits her own happiness. First there was her father upon whom she and the rest of the household danced attendance...