Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forceful but not tactful, could get the conservative United Country Party to cooperate with the more liberal U. A. P. as Joe Lyons had skilfully done. As he began to line up a panel, again in a big hurry, he met with another accident which sprained his spirit...
...Last weekend, the $1,000,000 Glass Center building was damaged by fire. First reported in true World's Fair spirit as a million-dollar loss, the damage actually came to a few thousand dollars...
...them. Every-day problems of every-day individuals are the essence of broader institutional problems, and in order to get to the bottom of a social situation, it must be reduced to its lowest common denominator,--the individual. On this point the Grant Study is truly in the spirit of the times...
...line of treatment employed by Walter Millis in "The Martial Spirit" was the first definite attempt to relegate the Spanish-American War to the status of a slap-stick melodrama, and this attempt has proved quite successful. Likewise, Mr. Gregory Mason's account of the War has many more characteristics in common with the Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera than with an armed conflict. He has seconded Millis' motion on the subject by treating the 1898 embroilment as a schoolboy's scuffle. But, like many second-the-motions, "Remember the Maine" is at best only a weak reiteration...
...life to come. It is thoroughly Protestant in its attitude, and in spite of the melancholy and grimness of some passages and the profound nature of the work as a whole, the optimistic Protestant conception of a blessed eternity for the righteous is the essence of its spirit. The terror of the Day of Judgment is followed by the defeat of Death, and even such despair as that of the second movement, "Behold, all flesh is as the grass," gives way to rejoicing in the happy fate of "the redeemed of the Lord...