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Word: spirit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual poll taken by Film Daily, a most reliable motion-picture trade publication, lists the selections of 559 critics and commentators throughout the country. Only one foreign film (Henry V) was chosen for the "ten best" list, and only three importations (Caesar and Cleopatra, The Seventh Veil, Blithe Spirit) were cited on the honor roll of 51 pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

President Conant reiterated his plea for a "spirit of hard-headed idealism" as an approach to the atomic age yesterday morning when he paused midway through a two week tour of Texas to address the student body of Baylor University at Waco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Warns Of Atom War In Waco Talk | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

...taking some of the spirit of innovation she picked up as one of the founders of the experimental Group Theater and adding to it the sound showmanship she developed during her lengthy sojourn with the Theater Guild, Cheryl Crawford has repeatedly managed to combine originality with professional slickness in her productions. Such was the case with "One Touch of Venus," with the American Repertory Theater, and now with "Brigadoon," a musical fantasy beautifully set in the Scottish highlands by Oliver Smith and full of brilliant Agnes De Mille Scottish dances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

...floor. So Deborah continued to live at a Y.W.C.A. on 35 shillings ($7) a week and spent most of her waking hours being turned out of producers' offices. By the time Gabriel Pascal saw her, plain living and plenty of walking had etherealized the dumpling to that lithe spirit which Pascal singled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Born | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...hell & brimstone fundamentalist, not to be confused with Softshell - or modern - Baptists, or the Six-Principle, Seventh-Day, Particular, Truthful, Lying, Free-Will, No Effort, Duck River or Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preachers, Varments, Planners | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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