Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words will pass from this scene like breath upon the winter air," he told glum Dutchess County Democrats. "And so they are unimportant, except to quicken the spirit of deep affection that Franklin Roosevelt inscribed in the hearts of his fellow...
Public Service Commission in 1933 became the guiding spirit and director of TVA. He was chairman of the committee which prepared the Lilienthal-Acheson plan for international atomic control...
...Boston Tributary Theatre obviously lacks a strong organization, and its productions are good, bad, or indifferent as one member of the company expressed it, "depending on who's around." with such a hit-or-miss system, it's only a gambling theatrical spirit that can carry you to something worthwhile. Performance to follow we "Julius Caesar," "Dr. Faust us," "Macbeth," and "Romeo and Juliet." With the odds as they are, you might be better...
Succeeding chapters describe informatively and entertainingly Conant's 12 years in the White House. There are those who believe him one of the great political figures of the 20th century. This little, unbending college president and scientist was a true maker of history. He found the spirit of the country low and immediately transformed it into the likeness of his own sprightly soul. Despite his unusual success as head of the government he remained an educator first and always. One of his initial moves was the inauguration of a night-school for legislators "to save the English language from humiliation...
Traditional Harvard indifference is hardly evident these days in support of an undefeated club, which, incidentally, by raising the spirit, constitutes a high-grain aspirin for the headache. Gratifying, indeed, according to Jerry Spear, chief of the cheerleaders, are the spontaneous yells and songs, in addition to the organized chants and locomotives...