Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...works we are committed . . . to a world united before this common peril. . . . What happened during the war . . . was not science, and its whole spirit was one of frantic and rather ruthless exploitation of the known; it was not that of the sober, modest attempt to penetrate the unknown...
...Erskine's smooth rationalization of the Resurrection: "The miracle . . . was in the transformation of the apostles. The spirit of Jesus went with them all their days, until it seemed that in them he was risen from the dead...
...Blithe Spirit (Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, TIME...
...youthful idealism of Author Romains' men of good will is beginning to shiver in the cold draft of political affairs. As they enter middle age, they begin dimly to see bad omens. Chief among these omens is what Author Remains calls "the rise of gangs and the gang spirit...
Reformer. Dr. Frank, as his students call him, inherited from his hardy Scottish ancestors a scrappy spirit, a canny business head, and a set of literal Presbyterian morals. A bachelor until he was 45, Dr. Frank neither smokes nor drinks. As an undergraduate at Chapel Hill he was a rugged little St. George, who led pious forays against the roughnecks whose doxies plied their trade in Chapel Hill graveyard. He was nonetheless twice elected president of his class. In 1917, after taking an M.A. at Columbia, Frank Graham became one of the runtiest marines on record...