Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah with his characteristic "set the world on fire" spirit has undertaken more than he can finish. His great campaign to redeem the fair name of the Republican Party has netted a mere twentieth of the sum necessary to repay Mr. Sinclair for his donation to the "Keep Cool with Coolidge" camgaign...
...most agreeable features of the advent of Naval Science to Harvard has been the spirit of practicability which has permeated even the first year of the course. The presence this week of students in Harvard College in the crew of a United States battleship is not an innovation; there were similar trips last spring for the Freshmen registered in Naval Science 1. Eagle Boats took parties on a week end course of instruction, and late in June fifteen students cruised south to Annapolis. The satisfactory completion of a novitiate that included long vigils on watch and five hour stretches...
...next week neither the banks of the Charles, nor the board walks of the Yard may they soon be removed nor even the spirit of that white, cold and immovable bust that gazes so silent and steadfastly out through the halls of the Fogg, far out into what one knows not, will move the Vagabond to pursue his search of the things which one rendered unto the mind. In fact, about the only thing which will move him is the 1 o'clock to New York, and he advises all his readers to let this beneficent influence effect them...
Eighty thousand miles under her wings, the Spirit of St. Louis is soon to be retired. But the famed "We" partnership is not to be dissolved...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh is to have a new plane, built like the Spirit of St. Louis by the same painstaking builder, B. F. Mahoney, at the same place, San Diego, Calif. And, likewise, Hero Lindbergh is to be her only pilot...