Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walk it we must, for in one way or another a large portion of the non-vocational education of a citizen must be concerned with a study and analysis of fairly recent occurrences involving human beings. The spirit with which such study is undertaken is, therefore, a matter of great significance for the future of the nation...
...that he had been reported as making anti-U.S. propaganda. Instantly he answered: "I did. I did intentionally. The Americans said that when America won I would become Premier of Japan. That made me and all Japanese Christians traitors. Therefore, intentionally, I said America must return to the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. I was sorry I had to come down from international Christianity to national Christianity. I had no choice...
...well-attended seance of a Mr. & Mrs. Themelis (he was Irish, judging by his accent), Mrs. Steiner heard a spirit guide named Pat tell her to say hello to her husband. "Hello, darling," said she obediently. Mr. Steiner replied in an Irish brogue...
...free & easy community, printers were the freest and most independent people of all. They would swing into town on a fast freight, work as long as the spirit moved them, and then put down their "sticks"-sometimes in the middle of a rush job-and roll on along to the next place. They were "the aristocrats of the road," full of talk that sounded wonderful...
...America and Europe," he has decided, "have come to a final parting of the roads." Separated by an unbridgeable "spiritual chasm," America and Germany today represent to Author Hauser not only the "extremes of wealth and poverty" but also the extremes of decadence and the Spartan spirit. Readers of The German Talks Back, which is partly autobiographical, will catch on to the manner of man Author Hauser is when they recognize that ever since childhood he has arbitrarily split his worlds into "decadent" and "Spartan" halves...