Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshall warned grimly: "Unless we can have ... a real desire to carry out both the spirit and the letter of our agreements, it were better none were reached. . . . We should not seek agreement merely for the sake of agreement. The U.S. recognizes that its responsibilities in Europe will continue and it is more concerned in building solidly than in building fast...
...religion is long for this world. For the ultimate purpose of religion is not right behavior, or right opinion, or any earthly glory or virtue. Its purpose is that of a window through which the selfless eye may see its way to that final necessity of the human spirit, Godhead and immortality...
Pastel Thinking. Last year Los Alamos got a new superintendent, F. Robert Wegner, who gave it to them with bells on. Puckish Bob Wegner, 49, a man with shock-white hair and a youthful spirit, had once started a near-rebellion in Roslyn, Long Island, when he set his students to baking nut bread to teach them arithmetic (TIME, March 21, 1938). He went to Los Alamos from the Navy, where, as a lieutenant commander, he had bossed radio and rocket schools...
...report of itself, it is the permanent word of that day to all other days. The press must be free because its freedom is a condition of its veracity, and its veracity is its good faith with the total record of the human spirit...
...Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. . . . Numbers...