Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accepted without question under the stress of circumstances, they have been viewed askance of late by the new philosophers of pessimism. Whatever the final verdict, there is one serious lack in the awards instituted shortly after the war, that is being to some extent replaced. The concession to the spirit of 1918 in omitting the countries recently enemies of the United States needs no longer to be made, and the number of American students at present in Germany and Austria is an agreeable proof that the international friendship of this movement is no longer one-sided...
Another kinsman of the Romanovs, Duke George of Leuchtenberg, said not long ago despairingly of Mme. Tchaikovsky: "If she is not Anastasia who has returned in the flesh it is most certainly her spirit that has come back in a different body. And the worst of it is we can't find out whose body...
...Tien Lee Huang announced for next August a 10,000-mile air race from Dallas, Texas, to China, for a purse of $50,000 offered by Col. W. E. Easterwood of Dallas, Texas. He declared that 13 planes are already entered, including his own giant all-metal, trimotored Spirit of Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling"), now touring the U. S. "It was the great Kum Ming of the Province of Han," said he, "who, in the fourth Christian century, invented, made and flew the first airplane. . . . Its motive power...
Since the resignation of Mr. Seymour. Harvard's official news has been taken care of by a miscellaneous collection of well meaning gentlemen with many fine qualities, included among them a Simon pure spirit of amateurism as far as the newspaper game is concerned. This week these gentlemen decided that the Corporation's decision, reached Monday, should be withheld from a rapidly curious public until Friday, in order that the Alumni Bulletin should "get" an even break...
Broken in spirit and body, Michel became at last "liberé" (fantastic name for those wretches who survive imprisonment, but, exiled for years to come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting...