Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heavenly Consolation. "Sun Yat-sen said that the guiding spirit of the five-power principle is the division of rights and power.. . .But for a thousand years, the Chinese people have lacked the training to protect their rights. Frankly, we can say that they have not yet the ability or the habit. . . . They must be shielded against power...
When Madame de Pompadour's pet Comte de Buffon began the first encyclopedic natural history, he simplified his task by casually describing each species in terms of one specimen. Two centuries later, Picasso has embellished the Count's manuscript in the same spirit: by etching each creature with easy, sometimes careless familiarity, as if it were an ancient inhabitant of his own private park...
Divorced. Luis ("El Vate") Muñoz Marin, 48, broody-eyed President of Puerto Rico's Senate, founder and guiding spirit of the Popular Democratic Party, political hero of the poverty-stricken jibaros (hill people); by Muna Lee, 51, Mississippi-born poetess after 27 years of marriage, two children; in San Juan...
...thing, though, is certain. If the team is disappointing, it won't be because of its coaching, or the spirit of its material. Better blame it on the murderous schedule that includes fives up and down the New England coast who are loaded for revenge for last year's whippings. As for Holy Cross, only victor over the Stahlmen in regular competition, they are better than ever after a year of practice together...
Some of the same Eli spirit that prevailed in the successful goalpost charge on Soldiers Field could not unseat John Harvard despite two assaults of 300 strong Friday afternoon and evening. University police reserves under the direction of Chief A. R. Randell rallied from all corners of the Yard to carry the field...