Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schaefer he could find no technical flaw. In the mental notebook there was one entry, however: "Lacks fighting spirit." Said Matsuyama, "Put Schaefer on a table a foot higher than the regulation table and I'll play him for $1,000 a side...
...rest of the country Lampy's attack has been branded as a personal ridicule of Mr. Harkness. The strained, vague and ill-humored gesture of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin helps to deepen this misunderstanding. If the present number be read with a tolerant attitude and in the spirit in which the editors have intended it should be read, there is little cause for accusing the Lampoon of either bad manners or insincerity...
...appropriation of seven and a half million dollars for establishing an Institute of Human Relations at Yale, whose spirit will dominate that university in the future is an innovation, to say the least. The general object of the plan is to combine theoretical and practical sciences in analyzing and benefitting human life and relations. A comprehensive study of man in his relations to his fellow man is believed to be the key to understanding the individual. Knowledge of such theoretical sciences as biology, psychology, and sociology will be used in conjunction with what is known of such applied sciences...
...educational possibilities of the movies are enormous," he said. "Movies are exceedingly practicable in schools and colleges, for they furnish a means of instruction which does not the the student. The modern era is one of rapidity, and the cinema supplies instruction which conforms to the spirit of the times. Movies will be supplemented by books; books will be illustrated by movies...
...Europe is producing some artistic films, but they are greatly outweighed by the number of good American films. Russian films are extremely interesting because they are done in a new, modernistic spirit; but there is too much "esprit de propagande politique" in them. In Italy educational films are put out under the authority of the government by the Institute National Luce. Mussolini is very much in favor of films done in a realistic manner and sees the cinema as an effective means of international "rapprochement...