Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christmas spirit reigns throughout the University during the next week, with Yuletide festivities planned in every House for the first time since...
Although the spirit of Harlow was evident, the Varsity Club still showed enough skill to mark them as one of the top quintets in intramural competition...
...rushed through unanimous approval of their Social Service Committee report without realizing it contained the statement that ". . . segregation of believers . . . into racial or class churches is a denial of the New Testament affirmation of the equality of all believers at the foot of the Cross, and alien to the spirit of Christ, the Head of the church...
...week's end, however, both stores succumbed to the merchandising spirit of the season. In ads Gimbels sang...
Those who have seen the defeat of the spirit caused by illiteracy among immigrants or our pitifully defiant Armed Forces illiterates have hailed Richards' work on human grounds alone. But any suspicion of his activities as fuzzy intellectualism was banished during the war when jutting-jawed, pragmatic military men beat a path to his Peabody House office, asking for aid. In one ease Richards and a small staff, in a whirl of activity, taught 1000 Chinese naval officers enough Basic English to operate a ship-in six weeks. Here he also made films with Disney for use in Armed Forces...