Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common grain agreement and, in the last months, transport and food councils. Said suave French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud: "No better proof than this economic and financial accord could be found of the common will to carry this fight to a finish. It has been inspired by the same spirit that made possible unity of command for the military forces...
Theodore H. White is a 24-year-old Harvard graduate with short legs, freckled face, cocky eyes, indomitable spirit, a compassion for suffering people, and a curiosity which would cost a cat all nine of its lives in no time. At Harvard he sold newspapers to keep himself in shirts, tooted a trumpet to keep himself in spirits, and did just enough studying to keep himself in the top 20 of his class...
...group of armed men. This was understandable because of the world in which they lived, and the causes for which they were asked to die. Cowardice was common-'kai pa' ('I'm afraid') was heard on every hand. But the present Chinese Army has spirit. It glows. The men are willing to die. They mix and tangle with the Japanese with a burning hate that is good...
...Enhancement of State subsidies for cultural needs and reorganization of schools, to insure the possibility of attendance at schools to children of workers and other needy people; also solicitude of every form for the development of public education, science, literature and the arts in a progressive spirit...
...because they went on several bus trips together; at any rate, it's a good sign of the will to work which is about 90% of being a good swimmer (5% is natural ability; 5% guts). Dave Stearns, leader of the '42 team, typifies the Sophomores: he has spirit--works hard and once tried unsuccessfully to throw a newspaperman into the pool: he has a measure of speed, and he enjoys pulling his rotund body through the water. So do his classmates. With these things in mind, Mr. Ulen, who hasn't had a n natural swimmer since Art Bosworth...